The World in Words news: New York's polyglot cops, Arabic online, and the planet's most difficult language

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Our top five language stories this month: best and worst words of the year and the decade; Georgia launches a Russian language TV channel to counter the Kremlin's message; new ventures and technologies give a boost to Arabic online; just how many cases, genders and moods it takes to make one Amazonian language the world's most difficult; and the New York Police Department, now enforcing the law in nearly a hundred languages.

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