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The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Edward G. Gray
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, e