Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost - Nature

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Jul 23, 2026

Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost - Nature

A shift from nomadic lifestyles could have triggered linguistic diversity before it then declined rapidly.

The Rosetta Stone helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.Credit: Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Humanity might once have spoken many more languages than it does today, with tens of thousands … [+3306 chars]

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