Lost in translation: Papua New Guinea wins language Olympics
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If you are traveling to Papua New Guinea, you don't need to pack a phrasebook, you need to bring an entire library. With 841 living tongues and a colorful creole lingua franca, this Pacific nation is the undisputed world champion of linguistic diversity.Lost in translation: Papua New Guinea wins language Olympics
If you are traveling to Papua New Guinea, you don't need to pack a phrasebook, you need to bring an entire library. With 841 living tongues and a colorful creole lingua franca, this Pacific nation is the undisputed world champion of linguistic diversity. From Pii in the mist-cloaked highlands to Toaripi on the shores of the gleaming Coral Sea, Papua New Guinea is a linguist's paradise with one in 10 of the world's languages found here. The number of speakers of individual languages can range from a handful of people in the jungle --- not much more than an extended family --- to millions spread across provinces and terrains. Experts point to the country's relatively weak c...Keep on reading: Lost in translation: Papua New Guinea wins language Olympics Read more