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Show o JBB The World's Lcngutges. MflJ According to the authorities on Ian- MflJ images, there are approximately 3,424 jflfl spoken languages or dialects In the MflJ world. Thuy are distributed thus: America, 1,624; Asia, 037; Europe, flflj (87; Africa, 276 MflM the English language contains ap- HH proximately 600,000 words, about one- H half consisting of scientific termlnol- HH ogy rarely encountered outside of text H books and archaic, obsolescent, or ob H olete terms. A cureful study of 100, H OCO words by authorities showed tbat MflM 60,000 were of Teutonic derivation, pflj 30,000 or Greek or Latin origin, and tM 10,000 from other foreign sources. BH |