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I have read that when linguists want to find where a language family originated, they look for the place where the greatest diversity of its subfamilies are found e. g. austroasiatic on Taiwan. Could the same method be used to find where language itself started? It's usually assumed to be in Africa, but it has only four indigenous families. East Asia is far more linguistically diverse and New Guinea has dozens of families. Could language have originated there and spread to the rest of the world?
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