I mean, for example south and Central America only have like 2 or 3 languages, and is like the same territory of Europe, but in Europe in a “small” area are more than 6 languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian). Focus more in explaining why in Europe are so many languages in such a “small” territory?
Edit 1: yeah I know América has a lot of different indigenous languages and dialects, also Europe. I’m focusing on the principal languages
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> Edit 1: yeah I know América has a lot of different indigenous languages and dialects, also Europe. I’m focusing on the principal languages
By “principal languages”, you mean “languages that the English, French, Dutch and Spanish colonizers brought to America”, and not “the languages that people who have lived in America for thousands of years speak”
I think phrasing the question like that also answers your question.
American has _plenty_ of languages, it’s just that they’re spoken by the indigenous people (just like there are many indigenous European languages), and so many Americans don’t consider them “real” languages”.
If you only consider people descended from Europeans to be “proper” people, and languages spoken by European colonizers to be “proper” languages, then you’re going to find more languages in Europe than in any other part of the world. Not because there’s anything special about Europe or European languages, but because you’ve decided up front that only European languages count.
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