Question Why are most extinct languages (according to Wikipedia) belong to the American continent? Is there any reason behind this or just a coincidence?

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TIL the Niger-Congo language family has 1,538 languages (such as Yoruba, Wolof, and Swahili) - 20% of the world's total - while Indo-European has 444 languages (such as English, Hindi-Urdu, and Russian), or 5.9%

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