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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)

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

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How Many Languages Have There Ever Been?

Thanks to all of our patrons. You start out as a patron, then you end up on the show. How are you surprised? Who's in our lists? Who we hang out with? It's quite old Daniel. Enough of this shameless spruking you, Vagabond. Let's move on to the news. So if I asked all of you lovely people around the call today, how many languages do you think there has ever been like in history? What would you guess? Nine. Just nine.

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