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Simon J Greenhill
@SimonJGreenhill
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Also @simon@mastodon.nz
Apr 19, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Finally! #Grambank is out!

Grambank is a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages.

All available here: grambank.clld.org

Press Release: mpg.de/20186271/0418-… Image Our first paper is out now in @ScienceAdvances where we investigate what shapes the structure of languages.

First, we quantify how similar each language is - we find massive differences globally. Only a few of these 2400 languages are identical in the ways they structure info.
Dec 16, 2021 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Over the next century many of the world's languages will stop being spoken and die.

This is an unprecedented loss of cultural diversity.

Why? We wondered if there were common underlying factors driving this endangerment.

nature.com/articles/s4155…

#linguistics #languages 1/n Each language has a unique history, and has particular threats and challenges. However, what about global factors? We adapted the analytical approaches that have been applied in conservation biology to characterise current threats to language diversity.
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