Research on 2,400 languages shows nearly half the world’s language diversity is at risk
Credit: Shutterstock There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive abilities and what it means to be human. But this great diversity is threatened as more and more languages aren’t…
Becki Redner
April 23, 2023