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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Rescued 8-year-old Thai boy raised among dogs only communicates
 by barking
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:00:48 +0100
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 Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Tilde: 

 > Not a case of a feral child but...
 > 
 > https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-boy-raised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511
 > 
 > An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae district has been rescued from
 > a drug-ridden home where he was raised in near-total isolation and learned
 > to communicate only by barking.
 > 
 > Authorities found the boy living in squalor, surrounded by six dogs, after a
 > school principal and local activists raised the alarm, according to a report
 > in Thaiger.
 > 
 > The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal reasons, had not attended school
 > for over two years.

I wonder did he attend school at any point? I would expect him to have some
(human) language ability if he did. He may be choosing not to use what language
he has for very understandable psychological reasons.

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