{"id":1423,"date":"2012-03-07T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:52:59","slug":"language-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/language-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Language diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered which are the most linguistically diverse countries in the world? Well, look no further.<\/p>\n<p>Ethnologue\u2019s language diversity chart (pictured, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2012\/02\/daily-chart-9 \">via The Economist<\/a>) shows that Papua New Guinea and Congo are the most diverse. Papua New Guinea has an incredible 830 indigenous languages! The chart is based on the number of languages spoken in a country and Greenberg\u2019s diversity index, which \u201cscores countries on the probability that two citizens will share a mother tongue\u201d. That explains why Congo is second on the list despite having a mere 215 indigenous languages compared to third-place India\u2019s 438.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the scale is North Korea, with one indigenous language spoken and a score of nil on the diversity index. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Language-diversity.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Language-diversity.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Language diversity\" width=\"595\" height=\"744\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered which are the most linguistically diverse countries in the world? Well, look no further. Ethnologue\u2019s language diversity chart (pictured, via The Economist) shows that Papua New Guinea and Congo are the most diverse. Papua New Guinea has an incredible 830 indigenous languages! The chart is based on the number of languages spoken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99],"tags":[1110,1109,25],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-indigenous-languages","tag-language-chart","tag-language-diversity","tag-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}