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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: How many languages are there in the world?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20736

Blurb:

It is not easy to define what is or is not a language, and counting
is a matter of definitions. How many languages there are
also depends on when you count them. Languages, like people,
are born, they change and grow and sometimes have ofspring,
and they eventually die.

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