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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spoken by many of the tens of thousands of men who went through the camps and are now scattered around the world. But Uigur? Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linguists: The Feds Want You | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

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