Number of languages in the world (approx) is ______ .

There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.
   The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that country.
   There are one billion people speaking English. That’ s 20 percent of the world’ s population.
   Four hundred million people speak English as their first language. For the other 600 million it’ s either a second language or a foreign language.
   There are more than 500,000 words in the Oxford Dictionary. 80% of all English vocabulary comes from other language.
   Eighty percent of all information in the world’ s computers is in English.
   More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
   When the American spaceship voyage began its journey in 1977, it carries, a gold disc. On the disc, there were messages in 55 languages. Before all of them, there was message from the Secretary General of the United Nations in English.