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The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.
-Richard Leakey
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The World's Five Thousand Extant Languages Are

Richard Leakey
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.
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