Can you name the countries with the most languages?? by Lenni

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Countries With the Most Languages Quiz

by Lenni

Created Sep 30, 2009 in Language
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	ChanandlerBong:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 15:19 GMT	5 points
	Papua New Guinea + Democratic Republic of the Congo = Recipe for a good Sporcle quiz.

	Lady_Galadriel:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 12:10 GMT	3 points
	Awesome idea. I learned a few things from this! Thanks. Usually Sporcle's policy is to accept USA but US, as apparently the former is a noun and the latter an adjective...=/ So I have learned from reading comments on the birth countries of composers quiz, I think it was...I, don't really have any issue with it either way, just though I'd throw that out there.

	Converge:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 02:58 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. Nominated.

	beerslayer:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 22:28 GMT	2 points
	Excellent. Cannot believe I missed Papua New Guinea! Nominating this quiz.

	1447:	May 16th, 2010 at 20:41 GMT	5 points
	Vanuatu. A little island nation of some 12,000 km2, with 65 inhabited islands. And they have 115 languages?! That's almost two languages per inhabited island! Damn!

	puckett86:	May 16th, 2010 at 22:23 GMT	10 points
	I don't like nitpicking good quizzes, but can you please put at least some explanation at the top? Right now there is nothing. I mean, languages aren't exactly tangible things so one could argue that every country has every language; they just aren't always spoken, but there is certainly access to them. You need to explain what you mean, which I'm guessing is the most languages spoken natively.

	joeyostrander:	May 17th, 2010 at 01:12 GMT	0 points
	please accept "Dem Rep Congo". everyone else does.

	miko:	May 18th, 2010 at 11:27 GMT	2 points
	@joey: or just type drc, which this and ither quizzes also accepts.

	Garble86:	May 18th, 2010 at 11:43 GMT	3 points
	Of course, it depends where you draw the line between a dialect and a separate language...

	chaste:	May 18th, 2010 at 16:30 GMT	2 points
	Vanuatu?? Didn't expect that! Nominated.

	Flick:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 17:43 GMT	2 points
	A super quiz, with some real surprises

	NvjdsIsSmart:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 21:21 GMT	2 points
	Vanuatu? Each island must have there own language! :D

	midlifecrisis:	Dec 21st, 2010 at 22:03 GMT	2 points
	some bizarre answers on this quiz.....

	satyadasa:	Dec 28th, 2010 at 16:57 GMT	3 points
	I definitely will nominate. But you should change this to "indigenous languages" or something to that effect. The U.S.A. has many more languages than 300 if one counts languages of immigrants (like Punjabi and English) and several European countries would far surpass Vanuatu's 115. 300 languages are spoken in London. The source (or you) should make this more clear.

	311rvmt:	Jan 8th, 2011 at 17:44 GMT	0 points
	A lot of this is based on how much traditional languages have been studied and cataloged or driven to extinction by "official languages". There are a lot of poorly studied languages and un-cataloged. In developed nations, the variety of indigenous dialects tends to get replaced by a single official language. Naturally, dialects tend to geographically meld into each other in a continuum, so it's hard to set where a language begins and ends in a place like New Guinea.

	Holadude19507:	Nov 28th, 2011 at 20:04 GMT	1 point
	With 11 official languages, how is South Africa not on this list? Kinda wierd, huh?