Re: Linguistic superpowers or...
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:25:48 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 31, 11:27 am, "jimbo.ty...@xxxxxxxxx" <jimbo.ty...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I found this link
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/230-papua-new-guinea-the-...
on nakedtranslations (a translator's blog). For people who don't
follow links it's a map purportedly showing countries ranked by
linguistic diversity. Here are the results for the top 12. I'm not
convinced by any of these numbers but the one that puzzles me is
Nigeria. Is there any evidence that Nigeria is more linguistically
diverse than its neighbours?
You can get quite reliable information on language count at
ethnologue.org. If that's what this site lists as its source, it's
fairly trustworthy. The number for Indonesia looks grossly inflated
also, though.
Papua New Guinea 823 languages
Indonesia 726
Nigeria 505
India 387
Mexico 288
Cameroon 279
Australia 235
DR Congo 218
China 201
Brazil 192
United States 176
Philippines 169
.
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