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19th July 2005, 06:53 PM
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Linguistic diversity
This was just in NY Times. Since we all deal with cultural heritages, I thought it might be interesting.
MOST LANGUAGES PER COUNTRY 1. New Guinea: 820 languages 2. Indonesia: 742 3. Nigeria: 516 4. India: 427 5. USA:311 . 9. China: 241 LEAST LANGUAGES PER COUNTRY 1. N. Korea: 1 language 2. Haiti: 2 3,4. S. Korea, Cuba: 4 each 5. Burundi: 4 |
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20th July 2005, 04:54 AM
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Hi Ariel!
I find these little facts absolutly interesting. It has been a long while since I read the New York Times, since lately I have been a overbearing task master of organization of my various Afghan coins, hats, and dagger.  Oddly I am not suprised N. Korea has one language bnecause they are so closed to the world, my grandfather spent a lot of time in Korea during the war and he has nothing nice to say about them!  ( Other than he hates monkeys ) He gave me a small knife from over there , I have not looked at it in a while so I forget precisly where though. If your interested I will post pictures but I am certyain it is one of a kind.
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20th July 2005, 01:08 PM
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Interesting data and I have enough trouble with just
English :-) Rich S |
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