how many languages are spoken in oceania?
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Oceania has many indigenous languages, though many have been replaced by English and other European languages. Melanesia and Australia is home to over 5,000 languages alone, with one of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.
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Australia consists of Australia and New Zealand whereas Oceania is a composite of four regions including Australasia. It stretches out over the Pacific and part of South East Asia, covering Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. ... Why is Australia considered a continent and not an island?
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But Oceanic split over 3000 years ago and any two Oceanic languages are not likely to be mutually intelligible. In your specific example, both Tahitian and Hawaiian are Polynesian langages, and not only that, but Central Eastern Polynesian languages.
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Languages of Oceania. Native languages of Oceania fall into three major geographic groups: The large Austronesian language family, with such languages as Malay (Indonesian), Tagalog (Filipino), and Polynesian languages such as Maori and Hawaiian.
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With more than 2,000 distinct languages, Africa has a third of the world's languages with less than a seventh of the world's population. By comparison, Europe, which has about an eighth of the world's population, has only about 300 languages. Africa's linguistic diversity can even be found among individual Africans.
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In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages, not dialects)," making it the most linguistically diverse place on Earth. Languages with statutory recognition are Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and Papua New Guinean Sign Language.
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['Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers. ... ', 'Spanish — 460 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'English — 379 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'Hindi — 341 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers.']
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1. Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is the world's most linguistically diverse country, a fact that contributes to its status as the most ethnically diverse country in the world.
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['English - 5,195,196.', 'Spanish and Spanish Creole - 521,751.', 'Chinese Languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, etc;) - 81,650.', 'Vietnamese - 60,094.', 'Russian - 56,537.', 'Tagalog - 54,878.', 'Korean - 48,065.', 'African Languages - 40,932.']
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The national language of the Republic is Bislama. The official languages are Bislama, English and French. The principal languages of education are English and French. (The Constitution of Vanuatu, Article 3:1.)
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['Turkish – 45,117 speakers.', 'Gujarati – 43,868 speakers.', 'Panjabi – 22,108 speakers.', 'Urdu – 18,127 speakers.', 'French – 13,013 speakers.', 'Arabic – 11,971 speakers.', 'Tamil – 10,513 speakers.', 'Portuguese – 9,897 speakers.']
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The Answer: There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese.
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7,117 languages are spoken today. This is a fragile time: Roughly 40% of languages are now endangered, often with less than 1,000 speakers remaining. Meanwhile, just 23 languages account for more than half the world's population.
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South America is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world with 37 language families, 448 languages of which over 70 are unclassified. Indigenous languages are used throughout the entire continent. They are spoken by over 11 million people alongside Spanish and Portuguese.
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With more than 2,000 distinct languages, Africa has a third of the world's languages with less than a seventh of the world's population.
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New Zealand is part of a continental mass called Zealandia. Oceania includes New Zealand, comprises Australia, New Guinea and the many Pacific islands.
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['Chinese – 1 billion speakers in Asia, 1.2 billion speakers worldwide. ... ', 'Russian – 260 million speakers in Asia. ... ', 'Indonesian – 240 million speakers in Asia. ... ', 'Arabic – 230 million speakers in Asia. ... ', 'Bengali or Bangla – 230 million speakers in Asia.']