Linguists believe that select one: a. only 120 languages are now spoken in the world. b. the number of languages spoken in the world is increasing rapidly. c. nothing can be done to preserve linguistic diversity. d. all people should study english in order to facilitate cross-cultural communication. e. the world's linguistic diversity has been cut in half over the past 500 years.

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