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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

I just looked this up and apparently Papua New Guinea alone has over 800 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_languages

There are over 7000 languages in the world according to https://www.ethnologue.com/

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 3 days ago

And 43% of people speak languages from the Indo-European family. I just finished reading Proto which explains how this happened. It's a wild story.

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