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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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  • that only two continents of the world contain languages with clicks—Australia and Africa?
  • that India's oldest writing system, the Indus script, has never been decoded?


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