Humanity spoke thousands of languages ​​at the dawn of agriculture; now many of them are lost0

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• July 24, 2026

The Rosetta Stone helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.Credit: Juan Naharro Giménez/Getty Humanity may have once spoken many more languages ​​than today, with tens of thousands in use between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago. This far exceeds the more than 7,500 unique languages ​​currently used around the world. The findings, published July 23 in