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 ...

After surviving the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, after presiding over multiple funerals for his slain ...

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

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

Despite this, the analysis suggests that language diversity rose over the next few millennia as agriculture become more widespread globally, and peaked around 2,000 years ago, when tens of thousands ...