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Islands are engines of linguistic diversity, study shows
Islands drive language change and generate language diversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from ANU that analysed languages from over 13,000 inhabited islands.
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By the end of the study we found that the number of underweight children got down to less than 1 in 20. That’s a really big change over a short period of time.
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