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Languages of Texas: From the Oldest to the Newest
Before Texas was Texas, it was the loudest room on the continent. Dozens of languages — indigenous isolates with no known relatives on earth, colonial tongues, immigrant dialects built in the Hill Country and Karnes County, and post-1975 arrivals that now claim millions of speakers statewide — have all crossed this ground. Some are gone. Some are barely breathing. A few just arrived.