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Jim Tucker (X)
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Feb 6, 2010

That "one of the world's oldest languages" thing is of course a meaningless canard. Languagehat alludes to this problem briefly, and it gets taken up in the comments.

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003768.php
 


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