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 * ...that most of the 8,000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue?
 * ...that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
 * ...that the Jru' language, an indigenous language of Laos, was once written in a secret script?
 * ...that during the filming of The Linguists in the Andes, the cast coped with altitude sickness by drinking coca leaf tea?

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