Languages on Earth Number Near Three Thousand
Newhouse News Service reports at least 2796 languages are spoken worldwide with 7000 to 8000 dialects. Berlitz descendant Charles Berlitz discusses language origins, families, and scripts while noting his multilingual background and Berlitz’s findings on language development and the bow wow theory.
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Newhouse
French Academy
Charles Berlitz
Maximilian Berlitz
Berlitz Language Schools
Berlitz
New York
Yale University
Schmidt's coalition government in jeopardy
The Baltimore Sun reports that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt faces a crisis as the Free Democrat partners in Hesse shift to the Christian Democrats after state elections on September 26. The move threatens the national coalition by risking a CDU majority in the Bundesrat and sparks pressure on FDP leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher to reassess the Bonn alliance amid fears of obliteration. Hamburg and other states highlight the fragility of the Greens and FDP dynamics as regional and national talks unfold.
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Baltimore Sun
Bonn
Helmut Schmidt
Hesse
Schmidt
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Ting
CDU
Bundesrat
Free Democrats
FDP
Ekkehard Gries
Green Party
Hamburg
Greens
Free Democrat Party
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
National Alliance
Soviet opposition to Pope John Paul IIs Poland visit
Soviet sources report Moscow aims to deter a summer trip by Pope John Paul II to Poland, amid plans tied to the Jasna Gora monastery anniversary and the Solidarity movement. Tass cites Reagan urging restraint on antiwar priests. Polish bishops push for his visit despite martial law.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
John Paul II
Poland
Paris
Tass
Reagan
Jasna Gora
Czestochowa
Solidarity
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Grant
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