Islands are rich with languages spoken nowhere else
- RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Extremely remote islands are more likely than less isolated ones to have a high number of endemic languages.
Traditional dancers on Papua New Guinea, which includes several islands with a high number of endemic languages. Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty
Analysis of nearly 1,200 languages spoken on islands shows that islands play a crucial part in fostering language diversity 1 .
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02873-w
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