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In an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, Mbabaram, the word for "Dog" is almost exactly the same as the English word for "Dog". The similarity is a complete coincidence. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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...the Mbabaram word for "dog" was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word...

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