Linguistic Diversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23730344 |
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| Authors | Lenore A Grenoble, Lenore Grenoble (0000-0001-8810-7395, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0716 |
| OpenAlex | W4206570892 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Although it is somewhat difficult to count languages and to measure linguistic diversity with exact precision, there are estimated to be between 6,000 and 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. Languages can be classified genetically or typologically. Genetic classification involves the relationships of languages from a common ancestor, how they are related in terms of linguistic families. Typological classification involves how languages are more or less similar in terms of type of linguistic structures.
Ancestor · Diversity (politics) · Geography · Linguistic diversity · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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