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Word: tigrinya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking for a few good Pashto speakers. Also, according to an appeal posted on the FBI website today, the bureau is seeking fluent speakers and readers of Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese...

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

...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 [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects...

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

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