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From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:

... that while language extinction has occurred many times throughout history, it has accelerated in the 20th and 21st centuries?
... that Swahili is the official language in more countries than Mandarin Chinese, the language with the most native speakers?
... that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped Jean Berko Gleason (pictured) show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?
... that Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya?
... that electromagnetic articulography tracks movements of the tongue using electromagnetic induction?