08 July 2006

Mind-Boggling Number of Languages

I was browsing through Wikipedia the other day and discovered that in India (population over one billion) there are 800 different languages and 2,000 dialects. There are 23 different official languages (with Hindi and English being the two used for federal governmental purposes). The various states also have official languages. In Canada, way too many people complain because there are two official languages.

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