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The most linguistically diverse country is? (Highest probability: when two citizens are picked at random, they speak different languages)

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South Africa

Benin

Nigeria

Uganda

USA

161 votes

Anonymous 8w

Answer is Uganda but it’s close with Benin

Anonymous 8w

Papua New Guinea?

Anonymous 8w

Really thought India wins this one

Anonymous

#1 8w

I thought so too, but I looked it up and for some statistical reason, it’s not them.

Anonymous

#1 8w

It’s because there are 7,000 languages with less than 1,000 speakers, which makes it unlikely that one will get picked in the statistical drawing of 2 languages.