A new @science.org study finds language diversity peaked 1,000–3,000 years ago at ~10x today’s levels, then collapsed with the rise of empires, not colonialism. Most of what humans once said is gone without a trace. #Linguistics #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-world-...
The World Once Had Tens of Thousands of Languages. Almost All of Them Are Gone.A new model suggests linguistic diversity peaked not in the deep Paleolithic, but during the age of empires — and that the languages we speak today are survivors of a bottleneck, not a representativewww.anthropology.net