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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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A lot of language families in the world that are have very few languages in them like maybe two, three, four, five. But if you think about it, humans have had language for like 100,000 200,000 years,. And the population has been pretty low for a long time, but we spread out all over the world. The 7000 languages that exist today and the let's say 200, 400 language families, there's no reason to think that there weren't more in the past.

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