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DescriptionEthnologue 18 linguistic diversity index BlankMap-World6.svg
English: World map of linguistic diversity index with data from the 18th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World at http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/country . The shading intensity is linearly proportional to the linguistic diversity index. The base map is from File:BlankMap-World6.svg .
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Ethnologue 18 linguistic diversity index BlankMap-World6
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World map of linguistic diversity index with data from the 18th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World at http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/country . The shading intensity is linearly proportional to the linguistic diversity index. The base map is from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World6.svg .