Hittite language example, known only from ancient sources and no longer spoken. Tablet fragment. Invocations to Hattic deities; CTH 733. Hittite. Clay. YBC 16173. (Klaus Wagensonner via SWNS)
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Humanity had a "golden age" of linguistic diversity when tens of thousands of languages were spoken worldwide between 1,000 and 3,000 years.