Study links biodiversity and language loss

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By Mark Kinver
Environment reporter, BBC News

The decline of linguistic and cultural diversity is linked to the loss of biodiversity, a study has suggested.

The authors said that 70% of the world's languages were found within the planet's biodiversity hotspots.

Data showed that as these important environmental areas were degraded over time, cultures and languages in the area were also being lost.

The results of the study have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18020636

[limpyhobbler]

1. Well that makes sense since they have the same cause. nt

[Igel]

2. Landscape geography.

Lots of publications, missed the "correlation isn't causation" lecture and failed to learn the assumptions behind anova software.

Or perhaps the usual rule that advocacy and science make really bad bedfellows holds true.

[BlueIris]

3. Ouch.

Depressing information.