You disappeared for few days, and I was like hope they’re okay.

Hope you’re doing well, Lilian.

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The majority of these endangered languages exist in a. Indonesia (425); b. Papua New Guinea (312); c. Australia (190); d. and USA (180).

These numbers alone account for over a thousand of endangered language varieties in the world.

Source: Ethnologue

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Everyone is an ‘immigrant’, including myself, including Trump and all over his family. Yes, everyone! It’s just a matter of ‘when’ someone got their papers of identification. First, second or even third generation born, by the end of the day you’re an immigrant like everyone else.

In a country where our existence is criminalized, we gather in secret, share the little we have, and still dare to dream of safety.

We are someone's child, someone's partner, someone's friend.
We are survivors who refuse to disappear.

#QueerRefugeesMatter #HumanityHasNoBorders

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There around 455 languages which make the Indo-European language family. The most spoken Indo-European language is the West Germanic language English 1.52B.

Source: Ethnologue

On my treat; and the pleasure would be all mine.

I’m glad to hear you are starting to lighten up through. I’m so pleased to read this. 🫂

I don’t mind at all uplifting with you some of the emotional burdens - you’re not on your own.

I’ll hug you through it all until you start to feel better. Hope you have a wonderful time moving forward today, Lilian. 🫂

I just read this right now! Are you okay? Do you need to speak to someone, I’m all ears. Sorry I didn’t notice this way earlier. 🫂

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6-Australia (Pacific) 320
7-China (Asia) 308
8-Mexico (Americas)304
9-Cameron (Africa) 281
10-Brazil (Americas)240

Source: Ethnologue

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The highest number of languages by country are as follows:

1-Papua New Guinea (Pacific) 841
2-Indonesia (Asia) 721
3-Nigeria (Africa) 538
4-India (Asia) 459
5-United States (Americas)364

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Papua New Guinea of the Pacific alone has 841 languages - the highest number in the world.

The second most linguistically diverse continent is Africa with around 2167 languages - 30.3% of the world’s languages with 1.28B speakers.

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As of today, the highest number of languages concentrated in the Asian continent with around 2307 language varieties spoken by around 4.54B. That’s 32.2% of the world’s languages. The second highest number of languages in the world are concentrated in Indonesia - 721 languages.

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Instituto Socioambiental do Brazil

Ethnologue:<https://www.ethnologue.com/language/myp/>

Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people>

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References & Supplementary Data

Everett, Daniel Leonard. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle. New York: Pantheon, 2008. Print.

PHOIBLE 2.0: <https://phoible.org/inventories>

MIT: <https://news.mit.edu/2008/language-0624>

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Another interesting feature of the Pirahã language is that it has solely present tense.

The Pirahã language along with Rotokas of Bougainville have only 11 contrastive sounds - the smallest inventory ever recorded today.

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The Pirahã people (2024-900 speakers) also exhibit simple kinship structure - the simplest ever recorded crosslinguistically until today: <baíxi> refers to a ‘parent, grandparent, or an elder’, <xahaigí> refers to a ‘sibling’; <hoagí or hoísai> refers to a ‘son’; & <kai> ‘daughter’.

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Pirahã exhibits only a two-way distinction quantifiers - ‘few’ & ‘many’; & there is zero-equivalency to cardinal & ordinal numbers in Pirahã.