1. How many human languages are currently spoken? >6700

2. What language indigenous to the Western Hemisphere currently has 
	the largest number of speakers? Quechua

3. Given 'verb', 'subject', and 'object', what is the normal order in 
	English? SVO
	In Japanese? SOV

4. What language was spoken in the area around Houston at the time of 
	Columbus? Karankawa

5. What is the national language of the Philippines? Pilipino/Tagalog

6. What kind of language is it that attaches multiple affixes to the 
	verb as in the following example from Mohawk? Polysynthetic

	kh-y-a-ha-nya?kw-a-kwari-hsy-a?t-e?
	[contrastive-translocative-aorist-masculine singular agent
	-esophagus-epenthetic-crooked-reversive-causative-punctual]
	'He drank it right down'

7. What family of languages does Mohawk belong to? Iroquoian

8. How many indigenous languages may have been spoken in the Western 
	Hemisphere in 1492? 2,050

9. How many indigenous languages are spoken today in the Western 
	Hemisphere? 837-937. More than 54% have become extinct.

10. How many languages were spoken in North America in 1492? 250
	& how many today? 194. About 22% have become extinct.

11. How many  indigenous languages currently spoken in North America have 
      < 100 speakers? 76 <1000? 46. Fewer than 40% have >1000 speakers. 
    Perhaps another 30% of the original 250 (i.e., those with <100 
	speakers) will disappear in your lifetime.