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    What country holds the record for the number of languages spoken, and name them?

    Question #28707. Asked by Siskin. (Feb 26 03 1:21 PM)


    mochyn

    		this site says Papua New Guinea with over 700 and I'm not going to name them


    http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzpapualanguages.htm



    Feb 26 03, 1:38 PM
    Friar Tuck

    		The country which has the most languages is India with 845 languages.
    http://www.britishcouncil.org/hongkong/english/mosaic/last/auntflo.htm

    Feb 26 03, 1:41 PM
    Siskin

    		In the Philip's Concise World Atlas it says 'More than 862 languages have been identified in Papua New Guinea, whose population is only 4.6 million people.

    Well done mochyn - and 'no' - of course I wasn't serious in asking you to name them!

    Feb 26 03, 10:44 PM

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