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click languages: References & Edit History

Article Contributors

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Anthony Traill

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - In Click Languages, an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Nov 09, 2015
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 10, 2005