Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 02, 2012
May 01, 2012
May 03, 2012
Transcript:
There are more than 800 languages spoken on the island of Papa New Guinea! Hey bud... What's eatin' ya? When a person dies among the Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands, relatives set the body beneath a tree where it sets until it is reduced to a skeleton! More than 90% of Antarctica is covered in a sheet of ice up to 3 miles deep!
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Aussie Down Under about 12 years ago
In Papua New Guinea It could make his mother-in-law even more difficult than usual to understand.
Aussie Down Under about 12 years ago
Lucky there are no vandals on the Andaman Islands or it could be …the shin bone is connected, to the arm bone, etc.
jennifer about 12 years ago
Fertilizer for the tree.
jennifer about 12 years ago
Papua … Island of Babel..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
alan.gurka about 12 years ago
I wondered about that too, so I did a quick check online and found 3 sites (there are many more) that confirm Ripley’s findings: Ethnologue says there are 842 individual languages (of which 830 are still living languages), our State Dept says PNG has three official languages and approximately 860 other languages, and another source says simply, that there are over 800 languages. It’s hard to disprove Ripley!
Puddleglum2 about 12 years ago
One primary language, culture and “religion” (Christianity) works best, imho!
sbeavin about 12 years ago
Well, it used to be 3 miles thick.
Big_Tex about 12 years ago
That’s a lot of ice, any one for tea.
Fan o’ Lio. about 12 years ago
Must not be many animals on those Islands. Animals usually leave the bones scattered about.
xall2h1 about 12 years ago
3 MILES!! That is so much ice. and if the ice caps melt the waters would get three miles higher!!!
RandomLantern445 over 3 years ago
I knew the fact about Papua New Guinea. It is my favorite country. Maybe even because of the languages.