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Contents
- 1. Introduction: dimensions of linguistic diversity
- 2. How many languages are there in the world?
- 3. Phylogenetic linguistics: establishing linguistic relationships
- 4. The future of languages
- 5. Some problems in the counting of languages
- 6. The genotypes of languages
- 7. The diversity of signed languages
- 8. Conclusion: the unity of human language