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=== Equal complexity hypothesis ===
{{POV section|date=July 2021}}During the 20th century, linguists and [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] adopted a [[standpoint theory|standpoint]] that would reject any [[Nationalism|nationalist]] ideas about superiority of the languages of establishment. The first known quote that puts forward the idea that all languages are equally complex comes from Rulon S. Wells III, 1954, who attributes it to [[Charles F. Hockett]]. Within a year, the same idea found its way to [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]:
{{Quote|text=All languages of today are equally complex(.) -- There are no 'primitive' languages, but all languages seem to be equally old and equally developed.<ref name="Joseph2012" />}}
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