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  2. John Zerzan - Wikipedia

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    John Edward Zerzan (/ ˈ z ɜːr z ə n / ZUR-zən; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like.

  3. Anarcho-primitivism - Wikipedia

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    Anarcho-primitivism, also known as anti-civilization anarchism, is an anarchist critique of civilization that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, abandonment of large-scale organization and all technology other than prehistoric technology, and the dissolution of agriculture.

  4. Gabon - Wikipedia

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    Gabon (/ ɡəˈbɒn / gə-BON; French pronunciation: [ɡabɔ̃] ⓘ), officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

  5. Origin of language - Wikipedia

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    The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language must draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...

  6. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    e. The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques. The origin of language is a hotly contested topic, with some languages tentatively ...

  7. Languages of Gabon - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Gabon. French is the official language in Gabon, spoken natively in large metropolitan areas and in total by 320,000 people or 14% of the country. [1] 32% of the people speak Fang as a mother tongue. [2] French is the medium of instruction. Before World War II very few Gabonese learned French, nearly all of them working in either ...

  8. Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles - Wikipedia

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    Yao. Ciboney Taíno, Classic Taíno, Shebaya, and Iñeri were Arawakan. Karina and Yao were Cariban. Guanahatabey, Macoris, and Ciguayo are unclassfied. Several languages of the Greater Antilles, specifically in Cuba and Hispaniola, appear to have preceded the Arawakan Taíno. Almost nothing is known of them, though a couple recorded words ...

  9. Generative semantics - Wikipedia

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    Generative semantics was a research program in theoretical linguistics which held that syntactic structures are computed on the basis of meanings rather than the other way around. Generative semantics developed out of transformational generative grammar in the mid-1960s, but stood in opposition to it. The period in which the two research ...