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Language creates boundaries
There are many theories of how the world's languages might have diversified. The common thread is that languages are markers of social boundaries between human groups. People with a common language share a common means of communication.
Any factor that might create or weaken the social or physical barriers between groups may also influence the start or end of languages.
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Factors that influence language diversity
One research group tried to understand which factors had the most influence of language diversity in different areas, using statistical techniques that combined ideas from linguists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and geographers.
They found that the most important variables associa...
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Languages
Scientists have few clear answers about what caused the start of thousands of languages.
Collectively, people speak more than 7,000 distinct languages, with more languages spoken in tropical regions than in temperate areas.
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