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The lost golden age of language diversity (www.mpg.de)
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An international research team involving researchers from Spain, the USA and Germany have reconstructed plausible trajectories of global language diversity across the last 12,000 years. Their study, published in Science, suggests that language diversity increased for most of the Holocene, reached a remarkable peak between approximately 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, and then declined rapidly thereafter.

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[โ€“] Seyker@tardigram.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do they put catalan as endangered? Withe more speakers and culture production than ever? The main language of politics and business in the region?

[โ€“] antonim@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Do they put catalan as endangered?

Probably not. The image does not really say what languages the points represent.