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The language steamrollers

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  • Jared M. Diamond

    (University of California Medical School)

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The 6,000 or so languages in the world are very unevenly distributed. In the whole of Europe, for instance, there are only about 63; New Guinea, by contrast, a tenth of the area of Europe, has about 1,000. To explain differences such as these, a couple of workers have gone back in time to relate the variety in `linguistic geography' to the massive expansions, with the advent of agriculture, of just a few populations from about 10,000 years ago.

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  • Jared M. Diamond, 1997. "The language steamrollers," Nature, Nature, vol. 389(6651), pages 544-546, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:389:y:1997:i:6651:d:10.1038_39184
    DOI: 10.1038/39184
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