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Exploring the lost golden age of language diversity before expanding empires drove a global decline
Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce ...
A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.
During a lost ‘golden age’ of language, humans may have spoken tens of thousands of different tongues, a new study suggests ...
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