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Publicēts: 01.12.1996.
Valoda: Angļu
Līmenis: Vidusskolas
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  • Eseja 'This Essay Is about a Fictional "Lost Tribe"', 1.
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A society with a limited language can be more informative than one would think. Based on the tidbits of information given about the Tagoman tribe's, of Australia, language one could deduce quite a few things. First, from their words for terrain and rain, I presume that they live inland, perhaps in the plains or rolling hills, somewhat like ones in the North-Central part of the United States, and are a generally agricultural civilization, based on their dozens of phrases for grains. This statement is also backed up by the fact that they have only one word for snow, and no word for ocean.…

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