{"id":228050,"date":"2026-08-01T05:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/tongue-tied-humans-once-spoke-tens-of-thousands-of-languages-so-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:49:53","slug":"tongue-tied-humans-once-spoke-tens-of-thousands-of-languages-so-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/tongue-tied-humans-once-spoke-tens-of-thousands-of-languages-so-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study published in the journal Science, today&#8217;s spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major &#8220;language bottleneck&#8221; in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/08\/01\/tongue-tied-humans-once-spoke-tens-of-thousands-of-languages-so-what-happened\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study published in the journal Science, today&#8217;s spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major &#8220;language bottleneck&#8221; in the past. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":228051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}