How different are different languages?

1.2 How different are different languages? : The number of world languages is about 6,500; there are actually 7,106 living languages in the world. Although this number might be the latest count, there is no one clear answer as to the exact number of languages that still exist. The question of how many languages there in the world has always been surrounded by uncertainty. However the census of India 1961 identified 1652 languages in India it is believed that 880 languages are still in use. English is used by many different people in many different settings for many different purposes. Naturally, the result is that English is not a single unified whole but comes in many different packages. Linguists have had to develop a number of different specialized terms to label the different ways we have of using English. There are regional variations abounding England, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, India, Africa, and Asia. These varieties differ...