The most linguistically diverse country has over eight hundred languages
Papua New Guinea holds the world record for linguistic density, with its population of nine million people speaking approximately 840 distinct indigenous languages across a single island nation.
Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth, accounting for roughly twelve percent of the world’s total languages. This incredible variety developed over thousands of years as rugged mountains and dense rainforests physically isolated different tribal groups from one another.
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