{"id":4820,"date":"2026-08-02T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:01:55","slug":"3000-years-ago-a-hidden-chapter-of-human-history-was-written-in-thousands-of-languages-then-fell-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent"},"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:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/us\/3000-years-ago-a-hidden-chapter-of-human-history-was-written-in-thousands-of-languages-then-fell-silent\/articleshow\/132629764.cms?from=mdr\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132629811,width-1200,height-630,imgsize-2889342,overlay-economictimes\/articleshow.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">economictimes.indiatimes.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">For a long time, the assumption was that ancient history was a endless sea of thousands of small isolated tribes\u2014meaning language diversity must have started at its highest point and steadily decayed. The new models show a very different story: a massive bell curve where language diversity peaked just 1,000 to 3,000 years ago before crashing into a severe bottleneck.<\/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":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","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=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}