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How many living languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country on Earth?
840
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Papua New Guinea speaks around 840 living languages — more than one in ten of every language on the planet, in one country.SOURCEEthnologue
Scale check: 840 is roughly a packed double-decker bus.
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