However, there are many countries in the world where the languages are still being persecuted and hounded out of existence. The country that has the most languages on earth is Papua New Guinea. Indonesia, including Irian Jaya, now has over seven hundred languages. Little is allowed to be known of what is happening in Indonesia. Nigeria has four hundred and ten languages, and India has three hundred and eighty.
Language diversity is concentrated very unevenly around the world.
Note also that those areas of language diversity tend to be in the same areas where biodiversity is concentrated. That is precisely where bulldozers and ethnocides are doing their work today. Here are four reasons. First, there is the aesthetic reason. Each language has its own beauty.