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《科学》 第393卷 第6809期 · 2026年7月23日 · 中文解读

全新世语言多样性的兴衰

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene · D. E. Blasi et al.
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本文通过统计与社会计算建模、民族志数据和古人口学推断,模拟了全新世全球语言多样性的轨迹,发现语言数量在3000至1000年前达到高峰,随后因帝国扩张而急剧减少。
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D. E. Blasi1,2,3*, M. J. Hamilton4,5,6, R. D. Gray7,8, C. L. Bowern9* Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational modeling, ethnographic data, and paleodemographic inference to model trajectories of global linguistic diversity. Before the onset of plant and animal domestication, the number of languages was smaller than it is today (4500 to 6000 compared with 7500). Subsequent increases in global population precipitated increased linguistic diversity. We uncovered a linguistic “golden age” with tens of thousands of languages 3000 to 1000 years ago. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第393卷 第6809期 · 2026年7月23日,D. E. Blasi et al.。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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