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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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[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve heard it said that a language is just a dialect with an army

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damn that's a great saying