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| Ascensión Solorsano de Cervantes |
January 29
1635: Cardinal Richelieu founds the Académie Française to safeguard the alleged purity of the French language.
1930: Death of Ascensión Solorsano de Cervantes (aged 74), the last speaker of Mutsun, a variety of Costanoan once spoken just south of San Francisco.
1999: Portugal passes a law recognizing the linguistic rights of its Mirandese-speaking community.
2003: After being threatened by a boycott, Microsoft Corporation agrees to publish an edition of the Office software in Nynorsk, the other standardized variety of Norwegian.
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