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WORLD LANGUAGES
source: portal.unesco.org/
culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID
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SECTION=201.html
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There are world just over 6,809 living languages worldwide*…
Of the 6,000 languages for which figures are available, 1/2 is spoken in only 8 countries:
| Papua New Guinea | 832 | | Indonesia | 731 | | Nigeria | 515 | | India | 832 | | Mexico | 295 | | Cameroon | 286 | | Australia | 268 | | Brazil | 234 |
* Ethnologue, Grimes 2000.
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