{"id":1269,"date":"2024-11-14T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1269"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:34:03","slug":"talks-of-the-past-top-open-seminar-dec-4th-2024-speaker-harald-hammarstrom","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/event\/talks-of-the-past-top-open-seminar-dec-4th-2024-speaker-harald-hammarstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Dec 4th, 2024: The Language Families of the World: Current State and Future Perspectives, speaker Harald Hammarstr\u00f6m"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1315\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-ToP-tall2024_g50_10bigs_mw-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-ToP-tall2024_g50_10bigs_mw-s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-ToP-tall2024_g50_10bigs_mw-s-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-ToP-tall2024_g50_10bigs_mw-s-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>The approximately 7,000 languages of the world is currently divided into no less than 422 lineages (= families + isolates) by the orthodox evidential criteria of Glottolog (glottolog.org).<\/p>\n<p>Should we believe this number?\u00a0 To what extent is it subjective, consistent in meta-properties and dependent on the amount of research and documentation? The time-depth of the families so far established do not reach more than 10,000 years back in time whereas human language arguably goes back at least 300,000 years (probably further).<\/p>\n<p>The inherent rate of linguistic change puts a limit on how deep linguistic data alone can probe, but are there combinations using evidence from other disciplines and general geospatial considerations that may take us further?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The approximately 7,000 languages of the world is currently divided into no less than 422 lineages (= families + isolates) by the orthodox evidential criteria of Glottolog (glottolog.org). Should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"Europe\/Stockholm","_EventStartDate":"2024-12-04 14:15:00","_EventEndDate":"2024-12-04 16:30:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2024-12-04 13:15:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2024-12-04 15:30:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"$","_EventCurrencyCode":"USD","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[543],"_EventVenueID":[825],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[64,80,67,66,17],"tribe_events_cat":[62,78],"class_list":["post-1269","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chp","tag-data","tag-human-past","tag-interdisciplinary-research","tag-linguistics","tribe_events_cat-seminars","tribe_events_cat-talks-of-the-past","cat_seminars","cat_talks-of-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}