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3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent
For a long time, the assumption was that ancient history was a endless sea of thousands of small isolated tribes—meaning language diversity must have started at its highest point and steadily decayed. The new models show a very different story: a massive bell curve where language diversity peaked just 1,000 to 3,000 years ago before crashing into a severe bottleneck.
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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.
