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Hello everyone,
welcome to the Lange Focus Channel and 

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my name is Paul.
Today I want to start this video with a 

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new feature called the mystery language.
I'm going to play a language for you 

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that you may have not heard before,
and at the end of the video I will let 

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you know what this language is.
So check it out

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a sas,
then the gus and Alisa Fallon trying to 

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date must watch away.
Mislead it's live.

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Okay.
Stay tuned until the end of the video 

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and I will tell you what language you 
just heard.

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Okay.
Onto our main topic.

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What country has the most languages 
spoken?

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What country is the most linguistically 
diverse?

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Many of us come from countries where 
there may just be one or two main 

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languages and maybe some other regional 
minority languages too,

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but there are some countries in the 
world where the amount of linguistic 

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variation is just mindblowing.
The country with the most languages 

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spoken is Papa New Guinea with at least 
820 different languages spoken.

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Imagined that upload.
New Guinea is a very rural country where

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88 percent of the people live in rural 
areas now compare that to 10 percent of 

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the people in the United Kingdom living 
in rural areas for 19 point three 

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percent of the American population 
living in rural areas.

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Papa New Guinea is very rural indeed and
because of Papa New Guinea is rugged 

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terrain and it's deep valleys,
there's a limited amount of 

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communication between all of those 
isolated rural community.

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That's why they're remained such an 
amazing amount of linguistic variety 

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today without any particular languages 
sort of growing in influence and 

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dominating the others.
You imagined that your village speaks 

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one language and the neighboring village
just a few kilometers away,

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speaks an entirely different language.
That's sometimes the case in top one new

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Guinea,
and I'm not even talking about different

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dialects of the same language,
although that happens too.

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I'm talking about completely different 
languages.

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In certain cases,
the languages of New Guinea fall into 

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three categories.
The first one is the Austronesian 

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languages,
which arrived in Papa New Guinea about 

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3,500
years ago.

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Then there are the top one languages 
which predate the Austronesian languages

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in Buffalo,
New Guinea,

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and then there are the foreign languages
and creole languages that serve as 

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Lingua Franca.
The term pop one language simply refers 

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to languages that predate the 
Austronesian languages,

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languages that are indigenous to pop one
new beginnings.

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It does not mean that they are a single 
language family.

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There are actually several dozen 
different language families amongst the 

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pop one languages.
Some of those language families have no 

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connection to each other and there are 
some language isolates.

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That means that there are individual 
languages that have no known connection 

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to any other languages in the world.
Most pop one languages are spoken by 

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only a few hundred to a few thousand 
people.

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There are a few that are spoken by over 
100,000

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people.
There are three official languages in 

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Papua New Guinea.
The first one is English,

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the second is talk piece in,
and the third one is he.

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The to the most widely spoken is top in.
It is an English creole language which 

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arose during the colonial period,
top face and is now used as a Lingua 

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Franca,
which is very important in a country 

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with so many different languages and it 
is also now spoken as a native language 

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by many people took in is less widely 
spoken in the southern region of couple.

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We're a different language,
often functions as the Lingua Franca,

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and that is key.
The motu two is a simplified creole,

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have another Austronesian language 
called multi.

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Its use has been declining in recent 
times in favor of English and talk 

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English is only spoken by one to two 
percent of the population,

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but it is widely used in business and it
is supposedly the language of education,

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but if English is the language of 
education and only one to two percent of

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the people speak it,
then that sounds like a pretty dodgy 

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education system.
To me.

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The second most linguistically diverse 
country in the world is Indonesia,

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which lives right next to Poplin.
In fact,

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half of the island of New Guinea lies 
inside Indonesia.

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About 740 languages are spoken in 
Indonesia,

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but there was only one official language
and Lingua Franca and that is Bahasa 

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Indonesia or Indonesian.
Number three is Nigeria with 516 

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languages spoken,
but English is used as a Lingua Franca,

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especially in the urban areas.

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I guess they need English to communicate
with all those thieving oil companies.

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Number four is India with 427 languages.
The main Lingua Franca is our Hindi as 

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well as English,
which was left behind by the British 

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colonizers in exchange for a massively 
huge amounts of India's resources,

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and number five is the USA,
which has 311 languages.

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Now,
that may sound surprising because we 

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think of the USA as an English speaking 
country,

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but remember that there are over a 
hundred indigenous languages in the USA 

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even though many of them have a very 
limited number of speakers these days.

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There are also a couple of hundred 
different languages spoken by immigrants

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to the USA.
It may be hard to wrap your head around 

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that huge degree of linguistic 
diversity,

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especially if you are interested in one 
of those countries and you want to learn

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a language to communicate with the 
people there,

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but luckily those countries all have one
or more Lingua Franca,

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which can help you communicate with a 
much larger proportion of the population

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from various different linguistic 
communities.

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The mystery language from the beginning 
of the video was the Malagasy language 

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from Madagascar.
For more information on the Malagasy 

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language,
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website.
Thanks again for watching.

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Have a nice.

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Yes.