Economic success drives language extinction
New research shows economic growth to be main driver of language extinction and reveals global 'hotspots' where languages are most under threat.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2014
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News tagged with linguistic diversity
Oceans apart: Study reveals insights into the evolution of languages
A new Journal of Evolutionary Biology study provides evidence that physical barriers formed by oceans can influence language diversification.
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2014
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Diversity is good for your English
New research from experts at The University of Manchester has revealed that as the country's linguistic diversity increases, speakers of other languages are also becoming more proficient in English.
Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2013
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Native Californians followed the greenery: Environment shaped 12,000 years of ethnic, linguistic diversity
California's rich diversity of Native American ethnic-and-language groups took shape during the past 12,000 years as migrating tribes settled first on the lush Pacific coast and then in progressively drier, less-vegetated ...
Archaeology
Aug 19, 2013
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Neanderthals shared speech and language with modern humans, study suggests
Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are ...
Archaeology
Jul 9, 2013
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The census has got it wrong on languages
The widely reported census figures published yesterday by the Office of National Statistics supposedly gave us all a snapshot of what languages we speak and where we speak them. But the data is woefully inaccurate, says Professor ...
Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2013
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Manchester boasts 153 languages
(Phys.org)—Linguists at The University of Manchester have discovered their city boasts of at least 153 languages, making it one of the world's most diverse places.
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2012
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Flexible learning system allows humans to keep up with linguistic change, researchers find
(Phys.org)—Unlike other species, humans speak to each other in remarkably diverse ways. Some of our 6,000 to 8,000 languages use clicks (!Kung). Others don't differentiate between nouns and verbs (Straits Salish). Still ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2012
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Turkey the birthplace of Hindi, English: study
Could the word for mother prove that Turkey was the birthplace of hundreds of languages as diverse as Hindi, Russian, Dutch, Albanian, Italian and English?
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2012
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Google sets out to save dying languages
Google has set out to save the world's dying languages.
Internet
Jun 21, 2012
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