Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction.

Humanity had a "golden age" of linguistic diversity when tens of thousands of languages were spoken worldwide between 1,000 and 3,000 years. The post Harvard and Yale researchers find lost ‘golden ...

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An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio has reconstructed the ...

You have this slowly brewing linguistic and cultural diversity,” says the paper’s lead author Damián Blasi, who studies language evolution at Harvard University. Because most ancient languages left ...