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Spoken language is dying — with people saying about 30% fewer words than 20 years ago: study
1+ week, 3+ day ago (389+ words) America’s at a loss for words! Spoken language is dying, with people speaking about 30% fewer words a day than they did 20 years ago — fueling a “loneliness epidemic” of disconnected convenience-seekers, according to a new study and experts. Small talk is…...
Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages
3+ week, 1+ day ago (684+ words) WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) – 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…...