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Colonialism and Imperial Expansion Led to Mass Extinction of Languages

A historical analysis suggests that colonialism and imperial expansion were significant factors in the disappearance of tens of thousands of languages worldwide, contrasting with a potentially less linguistically diverse world before agriculture.

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