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| Yang Huanyi |
September 20
1863: Death of Jacob Grimm.
1884: In The Current, Emma Carleton suggests "ip" as an epicene pronoun in place of he and she.
1916: German linguist August Leskien dies.
1952: The South Carolinian language Catawba, dies with its last speaker Sallie Brown Gordon.
2004: Yang Huanyi, the last competent user of Nüshu, dies in Changsha, China. Nüshu was a script used exclusively by women.
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