ANIMALS AND HUMAN LANGUAGE By Cecilia Isabel Castillo Flores | Page 5

The object of inquiry in linguistics is human
language, in particular the extent and limits
of diversity in the world’s languages. One
might suppose, therefore, that linguists would
have a clear and reasonably precise notion
of how many languages there are in the
world. It turns out, however, that there is no
such definite count—or at least, no such
count that has any status as a scientific
finding of modern linguistics.