Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Linguist working on language diversification at MPI-EVA in Leipzig, Germany. Also co-host of linguistics podcast "Because Language".
Research on 2,400 languages shows nearly half the world's language diversity is at risk
Apr 23, 2023 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive abilities and what it means to...
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