Is your country linguistically diverse?
Is your country linguistically diverse?
nein
There're over 50 languages in Vietnam. I don't know if it counts as linguistically diverse or not.
>the best countries to live in in Europe have high language diversity
>the best countries to live in outside of Europe have low language diversity
What did they mean by this?
Algeria has more languages than fucking Libya wtf.
This.
Also, Madagascar is green, while only Malagasy is spoken there.
You have no idea
Fundamentally, each state speaks a different language and has a different culture
Well, the data is actually based on how likely it is that you'd meet someone randomly who spoke a different mother tongue. So, a country with a lot of languages, but which has few speakers in most of those languages would have a lower "diversity" than one with a few languages with many native speakers.
> Mexico and Brazil are dark red
> Germany is light red
Source: Ass, Your (2017), J. Invented Facts (3) 10-24
>Latvia
>Ukraine
>good countries to live
Well, technically there are 56 official languages in Russia.
>how likely it is that you'd meet someone randomly who spoke a different mother tongue
It solely depends on your location here. Somewhere in Caucasus most of people have Russian as their second language, while in my native region it's nearly impossible to meet a non-Russian person.
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That seems like a stupid measure for 'diversity'.
We only speak brazilian here, dude. In Germany they speak both german and turkish.
>Italy
>not dark green
Central Italians speak dialects. They're mutually intellegible with Italian.
I know, but the others aren't more mutually intelligibile than Italian with Spanish, also we have minorities like the Arbereshe that lived here for centuries so they can be considered Italians who speak a different language.
We only speak portuguese here, my friend. Some people speak spanish, others speak some english, and that's it. More than 95% of the population can only understand portuguese.
Consider that lots of these are currently dying, while in countries like Papua New Guinea there are languages spoken only by 1k people are still healthy.
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Why is linguistic uniformity red aka bad?
we have 4 strongly alive languages in spain that are official in their regions and another 4 or so about to die plus arabic english from foreigners
also, wtf bosnia? are they seriously considering bosnian-croatian-serbian different languages?
so that shitty map doesn't exclude tourists
Brazil has at least 5 co-official languages, but they don't make much of an impact as they're mostly isolated to Southern Brazil:
>Portuñol
>Riograndenser Hunsrückisch/Pommersch
>Talian
>Ñeengatú
>Guaraní
90% of the population speaks Portuguese, while only a fraction of this total in Southern/Southeast Brazil speak any of those, so overall that map seems accurate. Now without considering co-official status we have pretty much every language there is, but then again they're mostly isolated to Southern and Southeast Brazil.
We made sure to repress any kind of silly regional dialects. Thank the Supreme Being for that.
what the fuck is going on with these Shqiptars in Calabria?!!?
Calabria is a mountainous region, so the communities tend to be quite insular there
It shouldn't be. REEEEEEEE
They're Catholics who fled Albania during the Ottoman invasion. Some of them have been pretty important in our history
>japan
>red
Shqiptars don't have a religion. They are like the gypsies. Low IQ genes. I thought shqiptars are only to be found around Bari.
that's breaking my dreams of finding a qt calabrese and settling there
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You would only have like the Ryukyuan and Ainu languages, and all those regional dialects, right?
>Linguistic diversity
>Low diversity is red
>High diversity is green
Whoever made this map subtly tries to sneak in the downright false idea that greater linguistic diversity is better.
Some maps are clearly made with an agenda, like that circumcision map that suddenly has one shade for 20%-80% (which is way too fucking huge compared to the remaining two: 80%), or some maps that suddenly use random numbers like 7% as cut-off points rather than 5% or 10%.
Given its size, Brazil is one the most linguistically homogeneous countries of the world. Portugal crashed and banned every language but Portuguese, and Brazilian government did the same for decades after our indepedence.
wtf? siberia has big number of languages.
This gives way too much diversity points to duolingual countries, like Latvia.
There's at least 5 languages natively spoken in Finland, why are we almost the darkest red?
you are opressing them, probably
>Bosnia is linguistically diverse
Ah yes because of all the variants of the same language they speak