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A Linguist's Extinct Dialect Saved Finland from Soviet Invasion
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A Linguist's Extinct Dialect Saved Finland from Soviet Invasion

A Finnish linguist's obsession with an extinct Siberian dialect accidentally saved his country from Soviet invasion.

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