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Mahmood Akram: the boy who knows 400 languages
Sreelatha M
Is linguistic diversity chaos or cultural wealth, especially in a country like India, where languages change every few hundred kilometres? For 19-year-old Mahmood Akram of Tamil Nadu, however, the question barely exists.
Akram can read and write around 400 languages and understand 46 of them. He is fluent in ten languages - Tamil, English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...