Language Statistics

Number of Living Languages:  6,912

Number of Words in the English Language:  989,614
(Estimated by GLM.)

Top Languages on the Internet

1 to 10 in 1,000 Languages

Number of Living Languages by Country

Top Spoken Languages in the World

Average American Vocabulary:  14,000 words
(Concensus Estimate.)

Shakespeare's Vocabulary:  24,000 words+
(Various concordances.)

Number of Words Invented by Shakespeare:  1,700+
(Various concordances.)

Words in the King James Bible: 

• 12,143 in the English,
• 783,137 total words,
• 8674 in the Hebrew Old Testament
• 5,624 in the Greek New Testament