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... language expanded its area at the ex- dominance pense of Danish and Norwegian by the conquest of southern and western provinces in the 17th century . After Sweden lost Finland in 1809 , the role of Swedish was gradually reduced in that ...
... language expanded its area at the ex- dominance pense of Danish and Norwegian by the conquest of southern and western provinces in the 17th century . After Sweden lost Finland in 1809 , the role of Swedish was gradually reduced in that ...
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... languages and the other Cushitic languages , some scholars classify West Cushitic as a separate branch of Hamito - Semitic , called Omotic . There is , however , a probability that the parent language common to Omotic and the Cushitic ...
... languages and the other Cushitic languages , some scholars classify West Cushitic as a separate branch of Hamito - Semitic , called Omotic . There is , however , a probability that the parent language common to Omotic and the Cushitic ...
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... language , although already partly replaced by an Aramaic vernacular in the everyday life of Palestine in the late 1st millennium BC and early 1st millennium AD , was still preserved as a literary language by the Jews who were expelled ...
... language , although already partly replaced by an Aramaic vernacular in the everyday life of Palestine in the late 1st millennium BC and early 1st millennium AD , was still preserved as a literary language by the Jews who were expelled ...
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