I recently watched a #Arte documentary exploring whether all humans once shared a single ancestral #language. I decided to recap its key points as a follow-up to my series on the origins of languages and #WritingSystems from last year:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/evolution_of_language_follow_up/
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Old map from 2021 "showing the area of origin of the East Germanic languages in pink, semi-fading since concept of land use differed & it's impossible to know borders.
In cards are given possible locations, -timeframe & -causes of the extinction of select East Germanic languages
In brackets is information that is uncertain. Also keep in mind causality issues - like say for example some languages might have never gone extinct due to adopting Latin in the first place had they not seen expulsions by other tribes moving westwards in the first place."
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#Linguistics (#LinguisticHistory?) question for folks:
What are the most recent letters to be added?
I know that not all #Languages or #WritingSystems use letters, but I'm curious to know from those that do (like Latin scripts?) what the newest letters are.
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A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories
"There has been considerable debate about the extent to which our biological and linguistic histories match to each other, supported by examples of both matches and mismatches. We introduce a genomic database (GeLaTo, or Genes and Languages Together) to quantify matches and mismatches worldwide. While in most populations genetic and linguistic relations match, mismatches occur regularly as a result of language shift, and several language families follow diversification patterns different from that of the genomes. These findings reveal features of population contact in human history that were previously inaccessible to observation. Our database opens avenues for disentangling demographic and linguistic history and for comparing biological and linguistic modes of evolution."
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