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| Franz Bopp |
September 14
This is the birthday of two major figures of 19th century German and international linguists. In 1769, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt is born in Berlin, and in 1791, Franz Bopp is born in Mainz.
1999: The Nepalese capital Kathmandu is brought to a standstill by a strike provoked by a ban on the use of ethnic languages in official work.
2005: In Ho Chi Minh City, the first ever dictionary of Vietnamese Sign is published.
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