Which nation or country is the world's most linguistically diverse?
Please, write at least 5 names. And also write how many languages they have.
Please, write at least 5 names. And also write how many languages they have.
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1. India
2. Indonesia
3. Nigeria
4. Papua New Guinea
5. China
6. Russia
7. Iran
8. Pakistan
9. The USA
10. Canada
11. Australia
12. South Africa
13. The UK
14. The Phillipines
15. Malaysia
2. Indonesia
3. Nigeria
4. Papua New Guinea
5. China
6. Russia
7. Iran
8. Pakistan
9. The USA
10. Canada
11. Australia
12. South Africa
13. The UK
14. The Phillipines
15. Malaysia
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The problem needs to be clear in its aim. Is it the first language you are talking about?
USA being an immigrant country, the only one, has almost all modern languages of the world heard within its boundaries. That qualifies it (the world's most linguistically diverse), may be.
But it is the mother tongues we are interested in and not as secondary languages.
Next, is dialects like in China. Diversity at national level in anything is not tolerated in China. Dielects are mutually intelligible that doesn't qualify them to be treated as seperate languages. Mutual intelligibility to a certain extent, is possible in a family of languages like the Indo-European language group. Just as European languages in different countries are not that mutually unintelligible, so is in India where each state has its language (main language).
The published statistics of India lists speakers (2001 figures) of the constitutionally recognised languages, in millions. These are: Assamese/Axomiya (13), Bengali (83), Bodo (1.4), Dogri (2.3), Gujarati (46), Hindi [422 including 258 million Standard Hindi speakers, Rajasthani (80 million in independent estimates), Bhojpuri (40 million), Awadhi (38 million), Chhattisgarhi (18 million)], Kannada (38), Kashmiri (5.5), Konkani (2.5 to 7.6), Maithili (12 to 32), Malayalam (33), Manipuri(also called Meitei or Meithei; 1.5), Marathi (72), Nepali (2.9), Oriya (33), Punjabi (29), Sanskrit (0.01), Santhali (6.5), Sindhi (2.5), Tamil (61), Telugu (74), Urdu (52). There are a dozen languages with speakers numbering more than 10 millions. Every year India adds a population equal to Australia's to its numbers, speaking all these above languages.
USA being an immigrant country, the only one, has almost all modern languages of the world heard within its boundaries. That qualifies it (the world's most linguistically diverse), may be.
But it is the mother tongues we are interested in and not as secondary languages.
Next, is dialects like in China. Diversity at national level in anything is not tolerated in China. Dielects are mutually intelligible that doesn't qualify them to be treated as seperate languages. Mutual intelligibility to a certain extent, is possible in a family of languages like the Indo-European language group. Just as European languages in different countries are not that mutually unintelligible, so is in India where each state has its language (main language).
The published statistics of India lists speakers (2001 figures) of the constitutionally recognised languages, in millions. These are: Assamese/Axomiya (13), Bengali (83), Bodo (1.4), Dogri (2.3), Gujarati (46), Hindi [422 including 258 million Standard Hindi speakers, Rajasthani (80 million in independent estimates), Bhojpuri (40 million), Awadhi (38 million), Chhattisgarhi (18 million)], Kannada (38), Kashmiri (5.5), Konkani (2.5 to 7.6), Maithili (12 to 32), Malayalam (33), Manipuri(also called Meitei or Meithei; 1.5), Marathi (72), Nepali (2.9), Oriya (33), Punjabi (29), Sanskrit (0.01), Santhali (6.5), Sindhi (2.5), Tamil (61), Telugu (74), Urdu (52). There are a dozen languages with speakers numbering more than 10 millions. Every year India adds a population equal to Australia's to its numbers, speaking all these above languages.
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