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Africa is the most multi-lingual area of the world if population is measured against languages. Nobody knows how many languages there are. A fairly small area of Cameroon, for example, contains more than one hundred languages, almost all of them unwritten. There are plenty of other similar examples. It is remarkable that history did not impose language patterns on Africa more specifically than it did.
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© 1979 Frank Barton
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Barton, F. (1979). Many Voices, Many Plans. In: The Press of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04075-9_12
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