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<quote> As in all natural Slavic languages, nouns in Slovianski have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural).
by DuncanIdaho 17y ago
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As in all natural Slavic languages, nouns in Slovianski have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two numbers (singular, plural).
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That's not true - Slovenian has three numbers: singular, dual and plural.
But then - Slovenian is maybe not a natural Slavic language?
- dchest 17y agoWikipedia says that Proto-Slavic language (the proto-language from which Slavic languages later emerged) had dual. But it was lost in every Slavic language except for Slovene and Sorbian: Of the living languages, only Slovene and Sorbian have preserved the dual number as a productive form. In all of the remaining languages, its influence is still found in the declension of nouns of which there are commonly only two: eyes, ears, shoulders, in certain fixed expressions, and the agreement of nouns when used with numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#The_dual_in_the_Slavic_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)#The_d...