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Global language diversity decline

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Latest: Global Study Finds Linguistic Diversity Plummets from Tens of Thousands to 7,500 Languages

An international research team coordinated by UNESCO and published in *Science* reconstructed 12,000 years of linguistic history, estimating that the Holocene began with roughly 4,500‑6,200 languages and that a peak of t

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