Common Conversations in Human Languages

Travel across places, boundaries, countries and continents is now becoming common. English has become a connecting medium for the human race across the planet. But, how would it be to exchange pleasantries with people in their native languages. It sounds real good, to me atleast!

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• • Hello in over 800 languages

 

• • How are you? in over 425 languages

 

• • Goodbye! in over 450 languages.

 

• • Please in over 270 languages.

 

• • Thank You! in over 465 languages.

 

• • Whats your name? in over 330 languages.

 

• • My name is… in over 275 languages.

 

• • Do you speak English? in over 215 languages.

 

• • I don’t understand in over 255 languages.

 

• • Welcome! in over 325 languages.

 

• • Good Morning in over 250 languages.

 

• • Good Afternoon in over 160 languages.

 

• • Good Evening in over 225 languages.

 

• • Good Night in over 240 languages.

 

• • Yes in over 550 languages.

 

• No in over 520 languages.

Now, the big question: How many living human languages do exist? There are many numbers circulating around. As per the sage, there were more than 6000 human spoken languages at one time, but the effective number has now dwindled to 100, and is receding quite fast. With what is termed as Globalization, English has now emerged as the de-facto standard.

Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. It consists of language maps with country, language codes, language families, primary language names of 7299 languages with a total of 39,491 alternate names.