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Jul 23, 2012 · There are many languages which, having descended from a language with a complex case system, have lost or greatly simplified theirs: Bulgarian (Slavic), English (Germanic), most Romance languages etc. All of the above are ultimately from PIE which had a case system.
May 2, 2021 · They didn’t. The masculine/feminine split happened within Core Indo-European; it was completely fixed and established by the time of Latin and is shared with lots and lots of other IE branches (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, etc.). The Romance languages lost the neuter gender but didn’t develop any new genders of their ...
Aug 20, 2017 · In languages such as Russian there are distinct verb-forms whose basic meanings correspond closely to these two aspectualities, and these languages are therefore said to have perfective and imperfective aspect. English, of course, is not such a language: the simple present and preterite can both be used either perfectively or imperfectively.
Merger of perfect and aorist in Italic and Celtic. One of the common features of the Italic and Celtic branches is the merger of perfect and aorist. So, in the surviving "perfect" forms we find a mixture of old aorist stems and old perfect ... historical-linguistics. celtic.
Jul 9, 2018 · Slavic languages are famous for their degree of mutual intelligibility, and there are ongoing scientific studies on this question. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any studies throwing constructed languages like Slovianski in the mix of studied languages.
Questions tagged [germanic-languages] Branch of the Indo-European languages from Northern Europe, including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.
