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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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Is There a Language?

Sverko Johansson says languages replace themselves on the average of maybe 1,000 years. There might have been 7,000 languages before, but then there were, so I might just keep multiplying by 1,000 depending on how many thousand year chunks there were since humans started speaking. So let's just say that there's 100 chunks of a thousand years. Now you're in the right direction. Daniel has looks, what is your guess? Okay. Let's say 7 million. No, I thought it was 100. 7 million. Sorry. Got to zero. Yeah. This is the similar direction that he goes in. Is it?Okay. But then we'll put a link

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