Mastodawn

There are more distinct languages spoken in the red areas than the grey areas of this map.

language families in red:
Austronesian 1,246 languages
Niger-Congo 1,495
Trans-New Guinea 561
+ other Papuan ~200

counts from Ethnologue 2005

This map is my derivative modification of this map, which is CC BY-SA 4.0 Alumnum and other Wikimedia contributors listed here and in linked pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family#/media/File:Primary_Human_Languages_Improved_Version.png

@Carwil and I thought india has the most languages 😮