It's weird to think that today, multilingual speakers might outnumber those who only speak one language.
I don't find that weird at all. Outside of the United States, it's actually quite common for someone to speak two or more languages.
Maybe it's because I'm an American where most people I know only really speak English fluently. Most Europeans can speak more lanuages than their mother tongue.
I'm an American as well, and I admit I'm only fluent in English, but can at least order food in a restaurant in a few others.
It's kind of worrying that more Americans can't speak more than one language fluently when you consider globalization and the increasing cultural openness of the world.
I think it depends on what part of the country you live in.  Where I live outside of Baltimore, a surprisingly large number of people speak Asian or Middle Eastern languages.
from rational and logical thought. 20th-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language. Major figures in linguistics include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky.
Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects. Natural languages are spoken or signed, but any language can be encoded into secondary media using auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli – for example, in whistling,
and of an entity in which a single language is either used or officially recognized (in particular when being compared with bilingual or multilingual entities or in the presence of individuals speaking different languages). Note that mono"glottism" can only refer to lacking the "ability" to speak several languages. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.
Suzzane Romaine pointed out, in her 1995 book "Bilingualism", that it would be weird to find a book titled "Monolingualism". This statement reflects the traditional assumption