The many islands of Indonesia and the Philippines shelter small languages despite those countries' middle-income status. Changes in the monolingual profile of the country are also due to the decisions taken at. By contrast, linguistic rivalry and relative poverty have kept a single language from dominating countries like India and Nigeria, which score high on the diversity index. A quasi-monolingual tertiary education in Greece: Baby steps to. America, Russia, Brazil, China and Mexico have over 100 languages each, but score relatively low on the diversity index, because English, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish have grown to the point where they threaten to destroy the many tiny native languages. The chart below measures language diversity in two very different ways: the number of languages spoken in the country and Greenberg's diversity index, which scores countries on the probability that two citizens will share a mother tongue.
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Italy: Languages just aren't a priority in Italian schools, so many live their lives without ever uttering a full sentence of the global language. Russia: Despite over 90 of Russians studying English at school, barely 10 can speak it as adults. In fact, monolingual countries are hard to find. Here are The Top 10 Most Monolingual Countries In The World. DESPITE the idea that English is spoken in America, Chinese in China, and Russian in Russia, most of the world is far more diverse than the presence of big national languages suggests.
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