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| Jan Baudouin de Courtenay |
March 13
1519: European study of Mesoamerican Indian languages begins, as the Spanish encounter and question their fellow countryman Jerónimo de Aguilar, who, as a survivor of a shipwreck has learned Mayan.
1845: Birth of Polish linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, forerunner of the structuralist school, and accredited (albeit wrongly) with having launched the term “phoneme.”
1938: Kremlin makes Russian a compulsory school subject in all Soviet republics.
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