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Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming
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- Exploring the lost golden age of language diversity before expanding empires drove a global decline Phys.org · 1d ago
- The collapse of the ‘Tower of Babel’: Humans have lost thousands of languages since antiquity EL PAÍS English · 1d ago
- The golden age of language was a few thousand years ago Science News · 1d ago
- Humans may have spoken 10 times as many languages 2,000 years ago Scientific American · 1d ago
- Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming Nature · 1d ago
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