Phb page 37, on selecting languages, says:
Your character knows at least three languages: Common plus two languages you roll or choose from the Standard Languages table. Knowledge of a language means your character can communicate in it, read it, and write it. Your class and other features might also give you languages.
So your character gets at least three languages and also—so, additionally—what you get from other features like class or background.
Gennerelly accepted where ?