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| Kemal Ataturk teaches Latin script |
1816: Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc arrive in the United States, where they subsequently lay the foundations for the American Sign Language.
1896: Birth of Swiss child language investigator Jean Piaget.
1928: Turkish leader Kemal Atatürk announces his decision to switch from Arabic to Latin script.
1940: Death of Rudolf Thurneysen, one of the first to apply the newly established principles of historical linguistics to Celtic languages.
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