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Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 16 points 14 hours ago

I’ve heard it said that a language is just a dialect with an army

[-] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 1 points 2 minutes ago

Im taking that

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Damn that's a great saying

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