{"id":4828,"date":"2026-08-02T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:05:40","slug":"study-documents-a-precipitous-decline-in-the-number-of-languages-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages"},"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:\/\/bworldonline.com\/arts-and-leisure\/2026\/07\/29\/766383\/study-documents-a-precipitous-decline-in-the-number-of-languages\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages - BusinessWorld Online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/flat-international-mother-language-day-illustration.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">bworldonline.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages &#8211; BusinessWorld Online<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That is a lot of languages. But it is a far cry from the peak number historically. Researchers used mathematical modeling and insights from anthropology, linguistics, and demography to [\u2026]<\/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-4828","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\/4828","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=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}