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... language and its replacement by Akkadian . Because of its role as bearer of Sumerian culture , as the language of reli- gion , literature , and many arts , however , Sumerian ( much as Latin in the Middle Ages ) continued to be taught ...
... language and its replacement by Akkadian . Because of its role as bearer of Sumerian culture , as the language of reli- gion , literature , and many arts , however , Sumerian ( much as Latin in the Middle Ages ) continued to be taught ...
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... language to language . Particularly difficult are place - names originally written in scripts other than the Latin ( Roman ) one ( the official script of the Universal Postal Union ) , such as Arabic , Chinese , Cyrillic , and the Indic ...
... language to language . Particularly difficult are place - names originally written in scripts other than the Latin ( Roman ) one ( the official script of the Universal Postal Union ) , such as Arabic , Chinese , Cyrillic , and the Indic ...
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... language , or language comprehension , centre . A patient with Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty understand- ing language ; his own speech is typically fluent but is empty of content and characterized by circumlocutions , a high ...
... language , or language comprehension , centre . A patient with Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty understand- ing language ; his own speech is typically fluent but is empty of content and characterized by circumlocutions , a high ...
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