Colin Gillespie

@csgillespie.bsky.social

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Co-Founder of @jumpingrivers.com

A cartographic visualization titled "Africa's Linguistic Diversity" showing the number of languages per million people across African nations. The map employs a monochromatic blue color scheme ranging from pale ice blue (#e0f4ff) for countries with fewer languages per capita to deep midnight blue (#0a1128) for those with the highest linguistic diversity, all set against a black background. The three most linguistically diverse countries are labeled on the left side with their national flag emojis and connected to their geographic locations via white lines: the Republic of the Congo (🇨🇬) at the top with 12.8 languages per million people (shown in the deepest blue), Botswana (🇧🇼) in the middle at 6.0, and Namibia (🇳🇦) at the bottom with 8.1 languages per million (both shown in medium-dark blue). The geographic pattern reveals that Central and Southern African nations, particularly smaller population countries, maintain higher linguistic diversity per capita. Most West African countries appear in medium to light blue tones, indicating moderate diversity. North African countries are rendered in dark gray, signifying missing data in this dataset which focuses on sub-Saharan languages. A legend on the right shows
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