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Before entering a long decline that continues into the present, humanity may have spoken far more languages, experiencing a “golden age” of linguistic diversity, with tens of thousands of languages spoken worldwide only several thousand years ago, a new Science study finds. https://scim.ag/4b8zW0b

scim.agThe rise and fall of language diversity through the HoloceneCharacterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

27/7/26, 7:18 pm14 reposts55 likes

SIISDET

@siisdet.bsky.social

28 July

Excellent contribution to the field.

Pyroclastics

@pyroclastics.bsky.social

27 July

The idea that we are normalizing communications as bad is ... well, bad. If we can't speak with each other, we can't reason with each other. So I don't morn the loss of isolated languages. I morn the corruption and dumbing down of the ones that survive.