Week 23

Papa New Guniea seems to be one of the most densely concentrated in the world. From prior knowledge, I know that it is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world and has over 850 different languages spoken there. If I am not mistaken, this comes down to the number of traditional societies and villages that still exist there today. This is due to Papa New Guniea being one of the least explored places on earth, and therefore the outside world has not had an influence as to changing or effecting these traditional societies, and they therefore still have their languages.
I notice how places like America and Russia, who's land has been absolutely explored and discovered does not have very much diversity in language. This is due to the absolute lack of diverse traditional societies in these places, and therefore hardly any range of culture or language.
I think places in Africa like Nigeria that are still diverse with language have the highest risk of 'language death' as they are surrounded and encircled by countries on their continent that are not culturally diverse, and therefore these countries will eventually have an effect on the culturally diverse ones.
One possibly reason for a decline in human languages, is the increase in travel, moving to different speaking countries, and are therefore not carrying on their ancestors language or culture. Or just generally, the world is dominated by English speaking people, and this is a language that is nor important for most people to learn.