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The ALPS Index: A Global Estimate of the Average Number of Languages a Person Speaks

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How many languages does the average person speak? The question has an established qualitative answer, that "probably more than half of the world's population is bilingual" (Grosjean, 2012), but no quantitative one at global scale. We audited individual language repertoire in 237 jurisdictions with
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