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To: farmfriend
The reporter made a very serious error. There are several non-Indo-European languages other than Basque spoken in Europe.

A partial list would include Albanian, 9 different Saami languages, Turkish, Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish. No doubt Arabic is spoken regularly among the recently immigrated Arabs and North Africans. London and Manchester England probably have at least one newspaper published in a Dravidian language.

Within the expected lifetime of a baby born today, though, it is entirely possible that all languages on Earth will collapse into a single dominant language.

3 posted on 03/18/2004 8:51:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
You mean the NYT got something wrong? I'm shocked, I tell you, just shocked!

Sarcasm aside, thanks for the addition to the thread!

4 posted on 03/18/2004 8:54:05 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: muawiyah
There is a correction appended to the article. It's the very last paragraph.
13 posted on 03/18/2004 11:39:35 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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