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whose speakers had mostly died by the 1950s. He published several books and articles on the topic and this material is the largest body of evidence for how this dialect was used and spoken in everyday life. Experts in the Gaelic
Society of Inverness considered Holmer to be a gifted scholar in the
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language in 1969. His work was helpful in the efforts of the Ngabu
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was believed by
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