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The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity
2018-09-26
Abstract excerpt
Language diversity is distributed unevenly over the globe. Why do some areas have so many different languages and other areas so few? Intriguingly, patterns of language diversity resemble biodiversity patterns, leading to suggestions that similar mechanisms may underlie both linguistic and biological diversification. Here we present the first global analysis of language diversity that identifies the relative impor...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fde7925-83a8-575f-a3d9-3ec10dd1f9b5
- DOI
- 10.1101/426502