Eli5: why there are so many languages in Europe? But in America there are less languages?

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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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Fewer.

Well, now that we have that out of the way.

There are hundreds of indigenous languages in the Americas.

So……….. you’re wrong. You have for some reason only included the European languages that became popular in the Americas rather than the languages that developed there. How very…………. colonising of you.

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