So of course 2895 is an extremely conservative number. A complete list with speaker estimates (and the year the estimate was made: https://www.ethnologue.com/browse/names ). What I went out to look out for were languages like Tulu, which are widely spoken, but have lost their script.
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Not a linguist, but amongst others, Italian/French/Spanish/Portuguese are not millenia-old. I heard some "slangs" have the characteristics of outbranching languages. Globalization seems a strong uniformizer, but there may be other phenomena at play too?
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Not a linguist either, but definitely very interested in language taxonomy. May be there are. However, in my view, the reasons are almost always economic, cultural, and political in nature.
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How many new languages have emerged in the last millennia? I would guess none. The consolidation of language is a natural result of the increase in the interconnectedness of the planet...
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