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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Origins of European Languages
In Genesis 10.5, right before the Tower of Babel, Noah's son Japheth and his offspring settle the isles of the Gentiles. The physician Johann Garoppius Baconis argued that Antwerpian-Brobantic Flemish was the real language. At the same time, the Esterians of Northwest Spain said that their tongue was descended directly from Tubal, son of Jap heth.
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