20Oct/093
The Journey Begins!
We are happy to announce that the way this blog is developed is changing! Last week’s post and the film, “Julie & Julia,†have inspired a new and exciting idea. Weekly posts will now be dedicated to researching and sharing information about world languages. While some will be about languages with which the majority of people are familiar, others will cover more obscure languages. Let the adventure begin!
The question upon which the idea was based is this: If one were to research a new language every week, how long would it take to cover every known language in the world? If you have a guess, please feel free to submit it as a comment to this post. It will be interesting to see what the timeline turns out to be!
November 6th, 2009 - 12:29
Well if my sources on the world wide web are correct, there are 6,913 languages in the world. If you research a different language every week than it will take you about 132 years 11 months and 2 weeks to finish all of them. So if you were hoping to do it in your lifetime you might want to think about doing 2 per week!
November 9th, 2009 - 09:13
Good point and great advice.
November 10th, 2009 - 09:36
Thanks for your help with the math! I’ve actually decided to cluster them according to language family, so that should get me through them quite a bit sooner. Stay tuned!