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DYK 1

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...that thetotem pole(pictured) which welcomes visitors to theBritish Museum was documented for the museum byRev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
...thatMissouri French is a nearly extinct dialect ofFrench that developed in what is now themidwestern United States during the colonial period?
...thatHindi,Bengali, andPortuguese were all proposed asofficial languages of the United Nations?
...that theVedda language is aCreole based onSinhalese ofSri Lanka instead of adialect?

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DYK 2

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...that thePermanent North American Gaeltacht (pictured) is an officially designatedIrish speaking area in English/French speakingOntario, Canada, the first of its kind outside ofIreland?
...thatEnglog isEnglish mixed withTagalog words, whileTaglish is Tagalog mixed with English words, both beingmacaronic languages?
...that some 19th-century newspapers inSouth Australia published articles in theCornish dialect of English to meet the needs of miners who hadmigrated there?
...that theHalegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of theKannada language?

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DYK 3

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...that a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastalMozambiquean languageKoti derives from a past variety ofSwahili?
...that theAmbelau,Buru,Kayeli andLisela people and theirAmbelau,Buru,Kayeli andLisela languages are unique to theIndonesian islands ofBuru andAmbelau?
...that theKorean dialect spoken byethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of itsspeakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
...that theNational Language Authority inPakistan is the firstautonomous regulatory institution to have internationally standardized theUrdu language code table andUrdu keyboard fortypewriters,teleprinters, andcomputer software?

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DYK 4

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...thatlinguistAsim Peco is an expert in the language of easternHerzegovina?
...that three different languages that used to bespoken in Nicaragua are nowextinct?
...thatRussian is spoken in Israel by about 20% of the total population?
...that the name of thekoala derives from the wordgula inDharuk and otherYuin–Kuric languages?

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DYK 5

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...that young people are more literate inHakha Chin than their elder counterparts?
...that there are at least 10Malay-based creoles?
...that the extinctGreenlandic Norse language is believed to have left loanwords inKalaallisut?
...thatRussian is the most widely spoken foreignlanguage in Armenia?

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DYK 6

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...thatBambaiya Hindi, apidgin used inMumbai, is a combination ofEnglish,Marathi,Gujarati and several other languages?
...that famousepic poems likeBeowulf andJudith were written inLate West Saxon?
...that theInuktun language, spoken by 1000Inughuit people aroundQaanaaq in northernGreenland, isrelated to CanadianInuit languages?
...that mostRussian-speakers in the United States areJewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union?

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DYK 7

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...that we know aboutLatin profanity from bothgraffiti atPompeii, and from the poems ofMartial,Catullus, andHorace?
...that virtually allItalian-speakers in Albania have learnt the language by watching Italian television and not through reading textbooks?
...that the indigenousNambikwara language ofBrazil has a specialimplosive consonant used only by elderly people?
...thatVenetian, spoken in and aroundVenice, Italy, is not a dialect ofItalian?

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DYK 8

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...that most of the 8,000 speakers of theNiuean language liveoutside the borders ofNiue?
...that hundreds of words still in use today, includingaccident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine,first appear in manuscripts written byGeoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
...that theJru' language, an indigenous language ofLaos, was once written ina secret script?
...that during the filming ofThe Linguists in theAndes, the cast coped withaltitude sickness by drinkingcoca leaf tea?

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DYK 9

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...thatOtomi grammar, the grammar of the indigenousOtomi language ofMexico has traits ofactive/stative alignment, but has noadjectives?
...thatAlbert White Hat, translator for the movieDances With Wolves, taught theLakota language atSinte Gleska University?
...that in 1998, theHopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni, the first comprehensiveHopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?
...that theNative American Languages Act of 1990 was the first timeCongress gave official status to Native American languages for the purpose of conducting tribal business?

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DYK 10

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...that there areseven dialectal groups of thePolish language, each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?
...that theNoric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one fromGrafenstein,Austria, and the other fromPtuj,Slovenia?
...thatSoviet literature declaredRussian the "world language ofinternationalism", denouncingFrench as the "language of fancy courtiers" andEnglish as the "jargon of traders"?
...that theHimariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standardmodern Greek?

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