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
