Who are the most multilingual people on earth?   

Well you may be surprise by our answer.  We believe Africans are the most multilingual people on earth.  The majority of Westerners think Africans speak  only an "African language" But there is no such language, there is one South African language called Afrikaans, it is similar to Dutch language. All most all Latin based languages are spoken in Africa. French is one of the most spoken Latin based language followed by English and Portuguese.   Since Africa was colonized by European countries Latin based languages such as Spanish, Italian,  French, English, Portuguese and Dutch are wildly spoken. That means one African may speak one Latin based language. When it comes to African own language researchers estimated that there more than 2000 African languages or dialects. That means an Africa may speak on the average three languages. Because of the close proximity of  where tribes live and countries are sharing borders  some languages such as Arabic, Swahili, Kiswahili, Wolof, Krio and others are shared by several  Africnan . People in West Africa speak several languages, we saw people who speak more than 8 languages, speaking about 5 languages is common. Based on our research we can say Africnas are the most multilingual people on earth.

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