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    The World's Linguistic Diversity Has Been Cut in Half, as Measured
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The World's Linguistic Diversity Has Been Cut in Half, as Measured

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The world's linguistic diversity has been cut in half, as measured by the number of distinct languages extant, in the past 500 years, and half of the remaining languages are predicted to disappear during this century.

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