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Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened?

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A study in Science, per Euronews, reveals that today's spoken languages all descend from a small number that survived a major bottleneck—out of the tens of thousands of languages humans once spoke.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/01/tongue-tied-hu...

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