Introduction: Communicating across linguistic borders

Anja Schuppert; Nanna Haug Hilton; Charlotte Gooskens

doi:10.1515/ling-2015-0001

Introduction: Communicating across linguistic borders

Anja Schuppert
, Nanna Haug Hilton
, Charlotte Gooskens

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Abstract

Rough estimates of how many languages are spoken in the world today usually range between 6500 and 7000. The 2013 edition of the Ethnologue lists even 7106 living languages (Lewis et al. 2013). If speakers of different languages communicate with each other, they have to find a way of communicating across a linguistic border, and typologically speaking, with more than 7000 languages, there are currently more than 25 million linguistic borders in the world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-217
Journal	Linguistics
Volume	53
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2015-0001
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
International and Development Communication
Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication

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