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'Long' Countries Protect Languages Better: Study

Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs and Steel' inspires quirky study

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 16, 2012 4:29 PM CDT

(Newser) – Speaking an indigenous language in Chile or Italy? You're in luck. In Turkey or Russia? Not so much. So say researchers at Stanford University, who studied 147 countries and concluded that those with a wide west-east axis (as opposed to a long north-south one)...   Read full story »

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