{"id":4808,"date":"2026-08-02T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:52","slug":"lost-for-words-how-modern-languages-were-formed-from-ancient-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"Lost for words: How modern languages were formed from ancient dialects"},"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.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/08\/01\/tongue-tied-humans-once-spoke-tens-of-thousands-of-languages-so-what-happened\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Lost for words: How modern languages were formed from ancient dialects\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/85\/06\/99\/1200x675_cmsv2_4bfb5d05-1a18-53dc-ba8f-06364a9d11bb-9850699.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.euronews.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Lost for words: How modern languages were formed from ancient dialects<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">According to a study published in the journal Science, today&#8217;s spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major &#8220;language bottleneck&#8221; in the past.<\/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-4808","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\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}