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Merzefanti the polyglot linguistic prodigy obituary
Merzefanti, who died at fifty four, reportedly knew about fifty languages and claimed to master eighty before death. He studied many tongues by parsing grammar and reading texts, then teaching himself through memory. He learned languages from prisoners as spiritual consolation and had an unusually European mix including Wallachian Ciprian and Lappish.
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