Geography 1500F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Biodiversity Hotspot
16 Dec 2018
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Languages involved are endemic to particular regions, w/ many facing extinction. These languages spoken by relatively few people. The ecology of human societies has led to the emergence of high linguistic. Competition for larger # of resources greater linguistic diversity. Others: more complex enviro. more plentiful, diverse resources larger. Maintain particular biodiversity targets could benefit one or more languages in the same place, and vice versa. High biodiversity groups of people have less need to communicate and share in times of need. European expansion - biological and linguistic diversity in many places more so in temperate areas, less so in the highly diverse tropics.
