Speakers of different languages describe the same picture in surprisingly different ways — yet these differences point to a few basic ideas all humans share about space 🌍🗣️✨

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The lost golden age of language diversity: Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion

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🌍 Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, a period described as a linguistic "golden age."

📈 Language diversity increased alongside human population growth for most of the Holocene, peaking between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, before a rapid decline.

🏛️ The decline in linguistic diversity began with the expansion of large states and empires, well before modern European colonialism.

surviving languages are a small, historically biased sample of past linguistic diversity.

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