Re: Ural-Altaic

"Ekkehard Dengler" <ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Peter T. Daniels schrieb:
>
> > The dual, of course, is found widely in IE languages [...]
>
> Could you name a few please?

Only partly to annoy Peter, I'll refer you to the Wikipedia:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#Dual_form_in_Indo-European_languages>

"""
[T]he dual form is used in several modern Indo-European
languages, such as Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian and Sorbian; see below
for details.
"""

and in less modern flavours more extensively:

"""
The Ancient Greek language used in the Homeric texts, the Iliad and
Odyssey, likewise had dual forms for all inflected categories,
although their use was only sporadic. Old Church Slavonic (the
ancestor of the Slavic languages) had dual forms, as did Old Irish and
Avestan. (Sanskrit and the Slavic languages agree in showing only
three dual forms for nouns: nominative-accusative-vocative,
dative-ablative-instrumental, and genitive-locative. Greek has only
two forms, and Old Irish only one. Avestan has a genitive dual
separate from the locative, but this may not go back to
Proto-Indo-European.)

The dual form was present in the early Germanic languages. Gothic had
first- and second-person dual marking on verbs and pronouns; Old
English, Old Norse and other old Germanic languages had dual marking
only on first- and second-person pronouns.
"""

Des
tangoes alone
.

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