Portal:Language/Did you know/May 2006

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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?

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