{"id":24224,"date":"2023-11-07T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=24224"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:09:43","slug":"how-many-languages-are-there-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/11\/07\/how-many-languages-are-there-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How many languages are there in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AW11072023-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AW11072023-6.jpg\" alt=\"How many languages are there in the world?\" class=\"wp-image-24209\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How many languages are there in the world?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll get different answers depending on which expert you ask, but according to the Linguistic Society of America the best estimate, at <a>ethnologue.com<\/a>, is about 7,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll get different answers depending on which expert you ask, but according to the Linguistic Society of America the best estimate, at ethnologue.com, is about 7,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24230,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions\/24230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}