Researchers charted a major decline since the linguistic “golden age,” due to language replacement driven by factors such as the expansion of large empires in antiquity and European colonialism in the past several centuries.

WASHINGTON: Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and…

Researchers charted a major decline since the linguistic “golden age,” due to language replacement driven by factors such as the expansion of large empires in antiquity and…