• Re: Rescued 8-year-old Thai boy raised among dogs only communicates by barking

    From Tilde@invalide@invalid.invalid to sci.lang on Sun Jul 13 19:51:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.lang

    Aidan Kehoe wrote:

    Ar an ceathr|| l|i de m|! I||il, scr|!obh 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 ThailandrCOs 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 rCLBoy ArCY 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.

    Follow the link. All covered in there.


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