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K. Desmet
2012
The political economy of linguistic cleavagesPDF
Journal of development Economics 97(2):322--338, 2012
This paper uses a linguistic tree, describing the genealogical relationship between all 6912 world languages, to compute measures of diversity at different levels of linguistic aggregation. By doing so, we let the data inform us on which linguistic cleavages are most ...