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The lost golden age of language diversity
An international research team involving researchers from Spain, the USA and Germany have reconstructed plausible trajectories of global language diversity across the last 12,000 years. Their study, published in Science, suggests that language diversity increased for most of the Holocene, reached a remarkable peak between approximately 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, and then declined rapidly thereafter.
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nature.com
Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost
A shift from nomadic lifestyles could have triggered linguistic diversity before it then declined rapidly.
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news.yale.edu
Study uncovers lost ‘golden age’ of languages
A new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.
