Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'
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A new study published in Science suggests humans spoke 20,000 to 75,000 different languages between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E., with researchers using computational models and ethnographic data to trace the rise and fall of global linguistic diversity over the past 12,000 years.
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