19th July 2005, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Linguistic diversity
This was just in NY Times. Since we all deal with cultural heritages, I thought it might be interesting.
MOST LANGUAGES PER COUNTRY 1. New Guinea: 820 languages 2. Indonesia: 742 3. Nigeria: 516 4. India: 427 5. USA:311 . 9. China: 241 LEAST LANGUAGES PER COUNTRY 1. N. Korea: 1 language 2. Haiti: 2 3,4. S. Korea, Cuba: 4 each 5. Burundi: 4 |
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