How many languages are spoken in Brazil? If you kicked 1, he died, if we count the indigenous languages, immigrants, signs and others, our country has about 250 languages. It may seem very much, but we are still far from the most linguistically diverse country in the world.
We can also imagine that the larger countries are more linguistic, but the truth is that the country that occupies this position, with more than 840 languages, is in a small archipelago of Oceania: Papua Nova Guinea.
It is even more impressive if we consider that all this diversity is concentrated in a population of only 10 million people.
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The reason for such a wide variety is attributed to colonization and also to the various ethnicities of the country. Papua Nova Guinea has three official languages: Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and English, the last thing he spoke most due to colonization.
Tok Pisin is a language that emerged among workers of Asian sugar cane plantations that went to the country during the colonial period.
According to IFL Science, a 2017 study investigated the reasons that led to a sudden variety of languages on the site. The conclusion is that a country composed of so many islands and lands that hindered locomotion created isolated indigenous groups that kept their languages.
“Our study has revealed that the genetic differences between groups of people are generally very strong, often much stronger than among the main populations throughout Europe or throughout East Asia,” Anders Bergström, the first author of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute article, said.
“We find an amazing difference between groups of people living in the high mountains and those of the lowlands, with a genetic separation dating to 10,000 to 20,000 years between the two. This makes cultural sense culturally, since historically the resisting highland groups have remained at the University of Oxford, according to the place.
