The language steamrollers

Jared M. Diamond
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Jared M. Diamond: University of California Medical School

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6651, 544-546

Abstract: The 6,000 or so languages in the world are very unevenly distributed. In the whole of Europe, for instance, there are only about 63; New Guinea, by contrast, a tenth of the area of Europe, has about 1,000. To explain differences such as these, a couple of workers have gone back in time to relate the variety in `linguistic geography' to the massive expansions, with the advent of agriculture, of just a few populations from about 10,000 years ago.

Date: 1997
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