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Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age' (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Hah. Back up to 1900, each village here had their own dialect. Nothing of value was lost with the hobasele (ant).