News Headline

Decline in languages leads to decline in Indigenous biological knowledge

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-06-04

Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-06-decline-languages-indigenous-biological-knowledge.html