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Sunday 29 December 2013

Top 10 Countries by Spoken Languages

1. Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the state where are spoken more different languages then in any other country. In Papua New Guinea are spoken 848 difference languages, another interesting fact about languages which are spoken in Papua New Guinea is that 12 of these languages does not have anymore alive speakers.

2. Indonesia
Indonesia is another country which has a very large number of languages which are spoken inside of a country's borders, with 740 different languages spoken in Indonesia. Languages spoken in Indonesia belong to Austronesian languages family.

3. Nigeria
Nigerian official language is English caused by former colony of England, but beside English in Nigeria are spoken and other 528 different languages, Nigeria has a pretty large number of spoken languages, with around 529 spoken languages.

4. India
India is another country with a colorful number of spoken languages, in India are spoken more then 450 different languages, the most used languages are Hindi and English. India has been part of British colonials, that's why in India English is spoken by a large number of citizens.

5. United States of America
The biggest country of democracy and freedom is also one of the biggest based on number of spoken languages, in United States are spoken around 337 different languages.

6. Mexico
Mexico the Latin country except Spanish which is official language has and another 300 different spoken languages.

7. Cameroon
Cameroon has only two official languages, English and French. But also in total in Cameroon are spoken 286 different languages.

8. Australia
Australia has a great curiosity about languages, in Australia there is no official language and also no national language, in total in Australia are spoken 275 different languages, these languages might be spread widely and spoken by a high number of citizens per each languages, that's might be the issue why Australia does not have an official language.

9. China
China with a large number of people surely would have also a large number of spoken languages, even China is not ranked as first by spoken languages. In China are spoken around 240 different languages in total.

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