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Show MANY LANGUAGES OF WORLD JslJB More Than 4,000 Spoken by Mankind, H Besides Innumerable Dialects H Improvement la Seen. ' How many men, if asked how many aH languages thero are In the world, l could glvo anything like an accurate i answer? The average man'e knowl- edgo or ability to apeak languages H rarely oxcoeds two besides hl& native H tongue, yet we Hnd that tho Emperor jH Francis Josoph, rhou visiting a Red j Cross hospital, recently ipoko with tho ' H patients in their own languages, which M shows the aged emperor to be master H It may appear strafjge, but It is H novertholcss true, that there are over 0 4,000 languages spoken by mankind, H whllo tho number of dialects exceeds H this, remarks a writer in London An- . H swera. Thero aro moro than sixty H vocabularies In Brazil, and in Mexico t H tho Nahua Is broken up into some 700 ' H dialects. Thero aro hundreds in Bop H neo, whllo In Australia thero Is no ii classifying tho complexities. Let us fl assumo that fifty dialects on an aver H ago belong to each language, and we Hl havo tho colossal total of 250,000 lin 'l gulBtlc abilities. ! M A century hence tho probability, Is H that thero will only bo four langaugos , H of importnnco In tho world. Central H Europo may produco : nowor nnd H moro straightforward Herman Ian- - gungo, imperial English may reign ' alono over tho Nortl' American contl- H nont, whllo :. aoro businesslike Opan- H lsU will bo used In South American J states, whllo Russia may take on t BOIdo litutu tluh uluvoiitc dialect, whlca ""HH will blend tho rncos of eastern Europi 1 and central ABta into a harmonloui J federation. So that in futuro these X2jH four languagos will enter into whai X B may be a never ending competition. A jllM |