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Topic: history

An early cuneiform writing tablet
Science
Friday, 7/24, 04:41 AM

The World May Have Had 10 Times as Many Languages 2,000 Years Ago

  • A new study estimates that humans spoke tens of thousands of languages around 2,000 years ago, perhaps ten times the roughly 7,000 spoken today.
  • The researchers argue the great fall came as large empires spread a few dominant tongues.
  • Some linguists are skeptical of the numbers.
The Congo River at Kinshasa
World 51 d

DR Congo at 66: a rich land where independence's promise still waits

  • On June 30, 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium amid soaring hopes.
  • Sixty-six years on, the anniversary lands as a painful question: how a country so blessed with the minerals that power the modern world remains, for so many of its people, so poor and so unsafe.

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In brief

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