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World Service,10 Sep 1999,28 mins

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My Century

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Aspects of language in the 20th Century. Hugh Lunghi was a translator for Churchill during World War II; Dovie Thomason is of the Native People of the Americas and is a storyteller; Ayo Bamgbose reflects on the adoption of English in Africa; Anver Mamedov is one of only a few speakers of Khinalig in Azerbaijan; and Sandra Galina is a translator at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

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