How Many languages in the World?

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers.
The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
There are close to 7,000 languages according to the Ethnologue Organization, but it is difficult to establish the actual number. We are losing language by the month as native speakers die out.
No exact figure exists, and we are losing languages every year, as only living speakers die. But a good estimate is about 6,800 languages, according to the Linguistic Society of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers