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Entries Tagged as 'Papua New Guinea'

Polyglot to the Extreme

September 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

It’s basically impossible not to be bowled over by the abundance of languages in Papua New Guinea. Though the nation’s population clocks in at a shade less than six million souls, those residents speak a mind-boggling 830 languages. That’s enough to make PNG the most polyglot country on Earth, beating out runner-up Indonesia by 108 [...]

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