Re: Ural-Altaic


Ekkehard Dengler <ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dc7taa$bt$03$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Peter T. Daniels schrieb:
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> > The dual, of course, is found widely in IE languages [...]
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> Could you name a few please?
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> Regards,
> Ekkehard

Straight off the cuff I can give you Slovenian:
Cases: N G D A L I V
Numbers: Jednina Dvojina Mnoz^ina
Genders: 3 with more than one declension paradigm each
Both nouns and adjectives have three numbers

IIRC, at least one of the Sorbian languages still has a live dual.

pjk


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