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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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How Many Languages Are There Today?

The number of languages in the world is thought to be at least 210 million. If you subtract away from colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade, how many would there be? "I think there'd probably be at least triple," says CNN's John Sutter.

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