Cumbre Vieja on La Palma, Canary Islands, erupted in September 2021, destroying thousands of homes and creating new land as lava flowed into the ocean.
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Which Indonesian volcano erupted in 2021, causing significant fatalities?
Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, erupted in December 2021, killing at least 57 people due to pyroclastic flows and lahars, underscoring the dangers of stratovolcanoes.
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Which language uses the **Gurmukhi script** and is spoken by millions of people in both India and Pakistan?
Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script in India (Sikh religion) and the Shahmukhi script (a Perso-Arabic variant) in Pakistan, making it a major language spanning both countries.
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Which language, official in parts of India, is a **Dravidian** language, genetically distinct from the Indo-Aryan languages of the north?
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam are the four major languages of the Dravidian family, spoken predominantly in Southern India. Marathi, Punjabi, and Odia are all Indo-Aryan languages.
