Next door, a native speaker of the Irish language, Thomas Gildea, won by campaigning for his constituents' right to watch British television without paying for it.

ECONOMIST: Ireland

One particular hard-to-make clicklike sound, a voiceless uvular ejective affricate, has been found in only a few other languages, including the Caucasian language Ubykh, whose last native speaker died in 1992.

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K. spoke, just as no native speaker of German, or one who does know this language would titter if someone said, Ich bin ein Wiener or Hamburgeror Frankfurter.

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