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In 1815, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora didn't just cause a "year without a summer" across the globe; it…
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In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…
While language isolates like Basque stand as mysterious linguistic islands with no living relatives, dialect continuums show us how languages…
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