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Show Languages of the World. It is estimated that, fVcr S.OOO.dls-.tlnqt. S.OOO.dls-.tlnqt. lamjuapes jrio "Tvrnonk men. A calculatlngprrj(gy would bo wnntod to computo with exactness how many separate dialects aro In use. Sixty years ago It was reckoned that sixty dlfferont vocabularies wero to bo found In Brazil, but tho actual number must bo far greater, for In much smaller Moxico tho Nahua language lan-guage has broken up Into 700 dialects. Thoro aro hundreds In Borneo. In Australia thero Is no classifying tho complexities. And, genorally, tho number of dlalccts Is In lnvorso pro portion i(i iiiu iiuujiuauui culture oc tho population. Assumo thnt only fifty dialects on the average belong to ovory language and ono has tho colossal colos-sal total of a quarter of a million linguistic lin-guistic varlotles. |