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The Linguist’s Calendar: May 8
1876:
Ethnic and linguistic cleansing of Tasmania is completed, as Truganini,
the last speaker of a Tasmanian language (also the last full-blooded
Tasmanian) goes to meet her maker.
1913:
In a letter to Edward Sapir, Alfred Kroeber reports that he believes to
have found that Klamath-Modoc is related to one of the language
families in California.
1924: Afrikaans becomes official in South Africa.
2000: Poland adopts the “Law concerning the Polish language,” which, among other things, aims to “combat vulgar language use.”
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