Sign languages vary from country to country,and many are not well known internationally.
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Still, there are millions of people speaking other languages -- including French, German, Mandarin, Arabic and lesser knownlanguages -- that also benefit from bilingual workers.
Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.