On Jan 23, 2008 3:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes wrote:
>
> >> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IN
> >
> > 178 languages
>
> How did you get that? Quoting from the page above,
>
> <q>
> The number of languages listed for India is 428. Of those, 415 are
> living languages and 13 are extinct.
> </q>

I wrote a script to count them from the listing. "Trust, but verify." :)

> >> http://www.argador.info/skope/tero/Regioi/Europa/kultur/scpraaxoi/index.html
> >> http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Europe

> > 204 languages

This script was a little trickier.

Maybe I had a bug in my script - please feel free to check my work. :)

-- Charles

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