Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

So there's a lot of languages that have very few native speakers left. matched

To answer your implied question there, Cara, how many languages are there in the world? matched

What do you think the answer is? matched

How many languages... matched

Not including, we'll say not including the artificial ones. matched

How many natural evolved languages? matched

So there are 2,700 languages and over 7,000 dialects. matched

Oh, okay. matched

Yeah, so it's about 10,000 if you include languages and dialects. matched

And so this was including both, right? matched

Language or dialect goes extinct every two weeks. matched

And there's a lot that are threatened, right? matched

So that one is science. matched

So let's go back to number one. matched

There are over 2,000 known artificial or constructed languages. matched

Jay and Bob think this one is perfectly cromulent. matched

Kara, you think this one is the fiction. matched

And this one is the fiction. matched

Yes. matched

Too high? matched

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