How many languages are there altogether in the world ?

There are around 6000 languages in the world but each year this number decreases unfortunately.

There are around 6000 languages and dialects spoken throughout the world, over 3000 are spoken in India alone.

Very interesting question. I never thought about it! Wow, 6000 languages... damn! Who would have thought.

Too many to list... but check this out!

It's hard to tell. What exactly is the threshold that separates two extremely different dialects of the same languages from being two separate languages? For example, Romanian and Moldavian are considered to be two separate languages, yet the difference between them are about the same as the difference between American English and British English, which are considered to be merely dialects.

Ethnologue lists about 7,299 main languages in its language name index and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects. http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp

they say about 6000 languages are spoken on the globe. Check www.answers.com

u mean tht of ours and animals?

almost 2 billion only half are kown