{"id":4762,"date":"2026-08-02T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:28:27","slug":"3000-years-ago-humanity-spoke-thousands-of-languages-then-fell-silent-where-did-they-all-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"3,000 years ago, humanity spoke thousands of languages \u2014 then fell silent. Where did they all go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/trending\/3-000-years-ago-humanity-spoke-thousands-of-languages-then-fell-silent-where-did-they-all-go-1785153294067\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"3,000 years ago, humanity spoke thousands of languages \u2014 then fell silent. Where did they all go?\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.wionews.com\/prod\/wion\/images\/2026\/20260727\/image-1785153603536.jpg?imwidth=1200&amp;imheight=900\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.wionews.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">3,000 years ago, humanity spoke thousands of languages \u2014 then fell silent. Where did they all go?<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">The new Science study suggests that agriculture initially acted as a powerful tool for linguistic diversification, causing the number of languages to rise exponentially rather than decline.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}