How did people who speak different languages ​​communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?

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How did people who speak different languages ​​communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?

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Gestures. Lots and lots of gestures. Surely you know the stereotype about Italians gesturing a lot? Well, it so happened that Italy was so fragmented that every town had its own language, often unintelligible even to the next town. So they had to adapt to talk to each others using gestures.

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