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Synonym for ((natural language)): a human-usable language that is not a ((conlang)). May be living or dead. There are about [http://www.ethnologue.org|7000] living natlangs, many of which are nearly dead (no new native speakers). It's interesting that the number I hear keeps growing. I first heard 3000-5000, then 4000-6000, now you say it's 7000. ''The SIL (which runs [http://www.ethnologue.org)] are notorious for calling lects languages which others would call dialects. 7000 is a sensible upper limit; the question of what counts as a language is ultimately political rather than linguistic.''
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