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10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by dre11(op): 11:13am On Dec 17, 2023

Languages of the World by Ethnologue, is an annual reference publication that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey.

Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year.

In this article we will be looking at the countries with the most languages across the world.

Here are 10 countries with the most languages

1. Papua New Guinea: 841

2. Indonesia: 720

3. Nigeria: 537

4. India: 458

5. United States: 355

6. Australia: 318

7. China: 307

8. Mexico: 304

9. Cameroon: 279

10. Brazil: 240

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by yinkus6750(m): 11:16am On Dec 17, 2023

Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by EyeCumInPiss: 11:36am On Dec 17, 2023

Meaning Nigerians have 537 ways of Speaking in Tongues. 😂

"Nigerians Inherited Speaking in Tongues from the Bible"
~Tinubu

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by illicit(m): 12:47pm On Dec 17, 2023

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

There are a lot of immigrants from many nations there

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Haydens: 4:24pm On Dec 17, 2023

In everything "most" Nigeria always tops the list in Africa and comes either 2nd or 3rd in the world but we have never produced any good president that will make the economy better.

When will this country top as the country with the best economy in the world or even Africa?

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by englishmart(m): 4:24pm On Dec 17, 2023

Languages are manmade. God or no imaginary being created languages. Who would have thought Dothraki in Game of thrones was contrived?

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Nazgul: 4:24pm On Dec 17, 2023*

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

Immigrants not ethnics. Native Americans of today speak English. A very small portion speak Spanish (but they understand English also)

The reason for the vast languages is because America is arguably the most sort out destination of several immigrants of different origins. Asians, Europeans, Caribbeans, Africans...etc. All migrate to the US in droves, bringing their culture and language with them.

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by StPete: 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

USA has that much language yet you will never see them attack each other. Small Nigeria is so forking bigoted and ethnocentric

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by MorataFC: 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

Hmmm

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Pidginwhisper: 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

Wow

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by EmekaBlue(m): 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

Wait o. Apart from English what else do Americans speak?!

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by BigDawsNet: 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

Nigeria, largest BlacK NatioN in the world😎

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by lexy2014: 4:25pm On Dec 17, 2023

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

immigrants

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Rebuker(m): 4:26pm On Dec 17, 2023

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Holluwhakemmy(f): 4:26pm On Dec 17, 2023

USA I thought their only language is English

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by papiwyte(m): 4:26pm On Dec 17, 2023

Up naija

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by jamesversion: 4:26pm On Dec 17, 2023

Why is it only in Nigeria that the multiple languages now constitute a serious problem?

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by correctguy101(m): 4:26pm On Dec 17, 2023

Oh

Las las we carried third for once... Lwkmd grin

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by KingLennon(m): 4:27pm On Dec 17, 2023

I think the accurate statistics was not gotten from Nigeria. We should be number 1. Tower of Babel was in Nigeria sad

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by ImpregnaTor(m): 4:27pm On Dec 17, 2023

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by BigDawsNet: 4:27pm On Dec 17, 2023

Holluwhakemmy:
USA I thought their only language is English

Official language...

They lots of people from many destinations that has been living in the US for generations

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Lazyreporta(m): 4:27pm On Dec 17, 2023

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Justiceleague1: 4:28pm On Dec 17, 2023

It's horrible that we still have to grapple with power outage in Nigeria in the year 2023!

All throughout yesterday,no lights!!!

Today Sunday,same thing,..power was on so far for only about 2hrs and gone again!!!

Meanwhile some mugus are already ascribing political positions to their oppressors for the year 2027!!!

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by porthouse7(f): 4:28pm On Dec 17, 2023

Igbo sef follow for Nigerian language?

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Femich18(m): 4:29pm On Dec 17, 2023

jamesversion:
Why is it only in Nigeria that the multiple languages now constitute a serious problem?

E tire me too o

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by KingAzubuike(f): 4:29pm On Dec 17, 2023

Languages full nigeria most especially in the north. Hausa is just like the lingua franca there. Those northerners have their own different languages.

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by Lanre4uonly(m): 4:29pm On Dec 17, 2023

Okay.

Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by clefstone(m): 4:29pm On Dec 17, 2023

USA having that many language has to be explained. I no gree

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by DataAlchemist: 4:29pm On Dec 17, 2023

United states?? thought they only speak english language, never knew they have diverse range of ethnic groups

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Re: 10 Countries With The Most Languages 2023 by id4sho(m): 4:30pm On Dec 17, 2023

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