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Massive public database of over 2,000 languages created to study linguistic diversity and evolution

Linguists, computational scientists and psychologists collaborate to publish the repository.

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Many languages in the world use words like “mama” or “papa” for “mother” and “father”. Languages with “mama” are colored in red, and languages with “father” are colored in blue. Credit: © J.-M. List.