Instead, they are split into dozens of unrelated families (with some isolates-languages with no relatives at all-left over).
Despite falling under the “Papuan” umbrella, these languages do not share a single root. The oldest group of languages in Papua New Guinea are the so-called “Papuan” languages, introduced by the first human settlers 40,000 years ago. Why does Papua New Guinea have so many languages, and how do locals cope? There are nearly 850 languages spoken in the country, making it the most linguistically diverse place on earth. Yet is is no match for a country of just 7.6m inhabitants in the Pacific Ocean: Papua New Guinea. INDIA, with its 1.3bn people, vast territory and 22 official languages (along with hundreds of unofficial ones), is well known as one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world.
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