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What did people in the Middle Ages think of static electricity?

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Quite a few foreign languages in countries that were colonized by Europeans seem to use alphabets similar to European ones (Tagalog, Swahili, Algonquin, etc). Did any of these countries ever have written languages before that just aren’t known or written anymore?

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What did people in the Middle Ages think of static electricity?	443
Quite a few foreign languages in countries that were colonized by Europeans seem to use alphabets similar to European ones (Tagalog, Swahili, Algonquin, etc). Did any of these countries ever have written languages before that just aren’t known or written anymore?	8