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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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[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

If our little website has developed some turns of phrase in incomprehensible to outsiders it makes sense for two small villages 3 millennia to develop their own language.