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 * ...that we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii, and from the poems of Martial, Catullus, and Horace?
 * ...that virtually all Italian-speakers in Albania have learnt the language by watching Italian television and not through reading textbooks?
 * ...that the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
 * ...that Venetian, spoken in and around Venice, Italy, is not a dialect of Italian?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2006/March, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2012/November, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2008/February, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 4) Recent additions/2004/March, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.