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...that
Basque, a
language isolate, is the only
ergative language in
Europe?
...that the first purely
alphabetic
script is thought to have been developed around
2000 BCE for
Semitic workers in central
Egypt?
...that
Damin is the only non-African language to have
clicks as regular
speech sounds?
...that an
agent noun is a
noun derived from another word that denotes an action, and means an entity that does that action?
...that
click consonants are stops produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity?
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