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NauenThen

Monday Quote/What I'm reading

In 2009, Kalaallisut became [Greenland's] one and only official administrative language. With this move, Greenland achieved a unique position: the only country of the Americas, from Canada all the way down to Chile, where the indigenous language doesn't play second fiddle to that of its colonial master. 

~ Gaston Dorren

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages

 

I love this kind of breezy, quirky survey. So many languages I've never heard of, right there in Europe. 

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