Languages of the World
                           Gerhard Jäger
                 University of Tübingen, October 19, 2010
                                      
                                       Introduction
       ● How many languages 
           are spoken today?                                            languages per continent
       ● Ethnologue (2005): 
                                                                                                Africa
           6 912: table 1                                                                       Americas
                                                                                                Asia
                                                                                                Europe
                                                                                                Pazific
       ● Number of speakers 
           varies substantially
                                                        
             How many languages?
                              
         many languages in Europe 
             How many languages?
                              
    ca. 150 languages in Europe, 40 the Caucasus alone