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Common terms and phrases19th century Africa alphabetic argued Batak language baybayin broader called Carl Meinhof Carochi civilization colonial contact colonial linguists colonial power colonial projects colonial regimes colonial subjects colonial world communities conflict conversion counted created cultural described devised dialect discussed in chapter Dutch dynamics empire endangered languages Europe’s European faith figure find first friar linguists German global grammar guage helped Herder hierarchies Hulstaert human Humboldt identity ideological imperial India influence influential intellectual Javanese Jespersen Johann Herder Jones language origins Latin letters linguistic descriptions linguistic diversity literate Malay Mayan languages meanings Nahuatl Nahuatl language native speakers natural official organic orthography pagan philological philological images philologists Pohnpeian political postcolonial practices of literacy print-literate quoted recognize reflected relations saltillo Sanskrit science of language sense Shona significant sionaries sketched social imaginaries sound Spanish spoken Swahili Tagalog texts textual Thomas Trautmann tion traditions vowel words written images zones of colonial Bibliographic information
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