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In the news - a "new" language

I have to put it in quotes because obviously this language isn't new to the people whose families have been speaking it for all these years.  But it's always interesting to me when "The Scientific Community" stumbles across something it didn't know about a subject thought to be well documented.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101005/ap_on_sc/us_sci_new_language
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