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More than half of the world's languages have no written form.
True. Probably fewer than a quarter of the world's languages (only around 1,700) have written forms.
Most people in the world are monolingual; that is, they only know how to speak one language.
False. Most people throughout the world speak more than one language.
There is a dictionary of every language in the world.
False. Fewer than a quarter of the world's languages have a written form, a necessary step towards having a dictionary.
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