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A beautiful small island is home to only 7.6 million people, yet there are over 840 languages spoken in the country, making it the most linguistically diverse place on earth. Papua New Guinea is ...

New genetic research reveals the complex demographic history of Vanuatu, explaining how Austronesian languages were retained throughout its history despite near-total replacement of early Austronesian ...

Papua New Guinea is the country where the most languages are spoken—840, more than twice as many as Europe. Continental Europe has 287 different languages, with 1,061 in the Americas and 1,313 in the ...

A new study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago ...