Sentence examples for languages number from inspiring English sources

It is widely believed that the world's languages number about seven thousand, with half of those predicted to die off by the end of this century.

The named dialects of these languages number many thousands more, not to mention the variant names for those languages and dialects.

Speakers of modern Iranian languages number between 150 and 200 million; Persian, Pashto, and Kurdish are the most widely spoken of these languages.

Speakers of Khasian languages number about 900,000, most of whom speak Khāsi; other languages of the group include Amwi (War), Synteng (Pnar), and Lyng-ngam.

Speakers of modern Indo-Aryan languages number more than 800 million persons; Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Urdu are the most widely spoken of these languages.

For example, in many languages numbers are described in spatial terms ("low" or "high" numbers) [1].

It's a Corsican-language number called "Si Mai Imparaghju à Esse Chjucu," which translates roughly as "Henceforth I Must Learn to Be Small".

Despite the occasional swinging tune - such as Amerika, notable as both their only English-language number and the only one that doesn't sound like the gates of hell clanking open - the real meat of the performance is the visuals.

After a second, however, I realized that the song wasn't a familiar English-language number at all, but just another catchy tune in Alf's native southern Swedish.

At the very least, the consortium-free experiment should triple the number of English-language debates to three and double the French-language number to two (2011 boasted only a single debate in each language, with the French-language contest having to be hastily rescheduled so as not to coincide with a Habs/Bruins playoff game).

The query was also used to obtain patients' medical record numbers, demographics, preferred language, number of chronic medical conditions, number of visits to the clinic in the past 12 months, primary care provider, and contact information.