SIL International: 2 ideas worth knowing

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One Pacific nation of 300,000 people speaks over 100 languages
Vanuatu has the highest density of languages per capita of any country on Earth, with more than 100 distinct indigenous languages spoken across its roughly 80 islands. Villages jus…
— SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World
How many languages are spoken in the world today?
The catalogue Ethnologue has been counting the world's living languages since the 1950s. How many does its latest edition list?
— SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World

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