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Between 400 and 200 B.C., the Indian grammarian Panini produced the first language study to meet rigorous linguistic criteria. He compiled a grammar of Sanskrit that linguistics still admire as a model of precise and sophisticated description. During the Middle Ages, many people thought all languages came from Biblical Hebrew. According to linguists, there are about 6,000 languages spoken in the world today. This number does not include dialects. Many languages are spoken only by small groups of a few hundred or a few thousand people. There are more than 200 languages with a million or more speakers.

You may find the answers to the previously mentioned and many other questions in our department :

• How can learning a foreign language help you?
• How many languages are spoken in the world?
• What is the difference between syntax and morphology?
• What are some reasons why languages change?
• What is the chief language family?

In our department, you can:

• Read books in more than 70 languages from all fields of knowledge in the reading room.
• Borrow fiction for free;
• Borrow books and documents provided by the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine;
• Watch feature films and documentaries;
• Communicate in English at the "English Anytime" conversation club every Saturday at 6:00 p.m.
• Free use of the Internet, tablets, and Kindle e-readers;
• Free search for materials necessary for scientific work in the full-text database eLibraryUSA.