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Ancient language diversity peaked before expanding empires began a long global decline | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (554+ words) Around 7,500 languages are spoken or signed across the world today. A new study suggests this number is far lower than in the past. Researchers estimate Earth held tens of thousands of languages between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago before a long period…...
Harvard and Yale researchers find lost ‘golden age’ of language
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (837+ words) Contemporary languages and endangerment status. (Claire Bowern via SWNS) Thousands more different languages were spoken in the past than today, according to new research. Humanity experienced a "golden age" of linguistic diversity when tens of thousands of languages were spoken…...
3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent
7+ hour, 56+ min ago (841+ words) The Economic Times...
Humans may have once spoken tens of thousands of languages
9+ hour, 31+ min ago (760+ words) Long before the world settled into a handful of dominant languages, humans may have gone through something like a linguistic golden age – speaking tens of thousands of distinct languages just a few thousand years ago. A new demographic model suggests…...
Nigeria’s first Professor of Linguistics, Ayo Bamgbose, dies at 94
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (331+ words) Nigeria’s first professor of linguistics and scholar, Emeritus Professor Ayọ Bamgbose, is dead. The 94-year-old professor of linguistics, who was credited with establishing linguistics as an academic discipline in Nigeria, passed away in the early hours of Saturday, ending an…...
Space Grammar, Analysability, and the English Passive | Language
14+ hour, 36+ min ago (359+ words) Alternatives are discussed for a number of assumptions fundamental to established linguistic theories. These alternatives lead to a coherent view of linguistic structure that treats grammar as a symbolic phenomenon, and emphasizes the importance of analys-ability to grammatical structure. A…...
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
10+ hour, 39+ min ago (544+ words) The Missing Color: Why Ancient Languages Had No Word for Blue Look up at the sky on a clear afternoon. Gaze across …...
Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago
11+ hour, 21+ min ago (797+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spoke in tongues, sought forbidden love, orbited an orbiter, and performed ritual magic. First, scientists have uncovered a “golden age” of languages that flourished for millennia before fading…...
Humans may have spoken thousands more languages three millennia ago
17+ hour, 36+ min ago (443+ words) But a new study published in the journal Science reveals that global linguistic diversity was once far greater, with early humans speaking up to 75,000 distinct languages during a lost “golden age”. Because ancient languages often disappeared without leaving written records,…...
Harvard and Yale researchers find lost âgolden ageâ of language | News
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (837+ words) Contemporary languages and endangerment status. (Claire Bowern via SWNS) Thousands more different languages were spoken in the past than today, according to new research. Humanity experienced a "golden age" of linguistic diversity when tens of thousands of languages were spoken…...