A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction.

Humanity had a "golden age" of linguistic diversity when tens of thousands of languages were spoken worldwide between 1,000 and 3,000 years. The post Harvard and Yale researchers find lost ‘golden age ...

During a lost ‘golden age’ of language, humans may have spoken tens of thousands of different tongues, a new study suggests ...

According to a study in ‘Science,’ Earth reached its greatest linguistic diversity between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, with a ...

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce ...

You have this slowly brewing linguistic and cultural diversity,” says the paper’s lead author Damián Blasi, who studies language evolution at Harvard University. Because most ancient languages left ...