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There are estimated to be about 5,000 languages currently spoken in the world today, depending on which you count as dialects and whic has distinct languages. ..... Most linguist now recognize Pisin (the 'pidgin English' of New Guinea), Black Engish Vernacular (a form of English mainly spoken by blacks in the major cities of the US), Caribbean Creoles (the English of the various Carribean islands) and Krio (the Creole of Sierra Leone in West Africa) and even Scots (the English spoken in the Scottish lowlands) as distinct languages.
――東京大学 〔1〕―（A）――2003年
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