Countries

The division of the world into 5 major areas which are subdivided into 22 regions follows the groupings of countries used by the United Nations Statistics Division in its reporting. See: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

Some countries have no language map(s) for one or more of the following reasons:

1. All the languages are widespread throughout the whole country.

2. There is only one language spoken in the country.

3. The data available to us is not reliable enough to publish.

4. Map production is underway for the country but has not yet been completed.

Papua New Guinea has the most languages, with 836 living languages.  Indonesia comes in second, with 706 living languages.  Third place goes to Nigeria, having 522 living languages.

Papua New Guinea with 836 living languages

Browse the Country Indexes to find the languages in which you are interested, and follow the links to available publications.