Category: Ciencia
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Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages
bworldonline.comStudy documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages – BusinessWorld OnlineWASHINGTON — Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That is a lot of languages. But it is a far cry from the peak number historically. Researchers used mathematical modeling and insights from anthropology, linguistics, and demography to […] -
3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent
economictimes.indiatimes.com3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silentFor 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. -
A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying
therumpus.netA Map of Languages, Dead and Dying – The RumpusI sometimes wonder if this very search to understand my family’s history, the context out of which I emerged, only feeds into this false sense of separateness. Perhaps it only doubles down on this “us vs. them” way of looking at the world, further entrenching the divides between us, based on the lie that we are somehow different from each other because we have this history or you have that one, we speak this language and you speak that one, we follow this set of customs and you follow that set of customs. -
Se han reducido a 7 mil 500 las lenguas utilizadas a escala mundial, revela estudio
www.jornada.com.mxSe han reducido a 7 mil 500 las lenguas utilizadas a escala mundial, revela estudioInvestigadores utilizaron modelos matemáticos y conocimientos de antropología, lingüística y demografía para estimar el número de lenguas utilizadas en todo el mundo hace unos 12 mil años, hacia el final de la última Edad de Hielo, abarcando un periodo denominado “época del Holoceno”. -
Se han reducido a 7 mil 500 las lenguas utilizadas a escala mundial, revela estudio
www.jornada.com.mxSe han reducido a 7 mil 500 las lenguas utilizadas a escala mundial, revela estudioInvestigadores utilizaron modelos matemáticos y conocimientos de antropología, lingüística y demografía para estimar el número de lenguas utilizadas en todo el mundo hace unos 12 mil años, hacia el final de la última Edad de Hielo, abarcando un periodo denominado “época del Holoceno”.
