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Several of its modern descendants are not that much simpler :) Most famously, Baltic and Slavic languages have retained large parts of the case system. Some of
by samus 4y ago
Several of its modern descendants are not that much simpler :) Most famously, Baltic and Slavic languages have retained large parts of the case system. Some of them even the dual forms of nouns. Their verbal system has become even more sophisticated. Germanic languages retain the Ablaut system, even though it is no longer productive and has decayed into a bunch of irregular verbs.
- jutrewag 4y ago[dead]
- int_19h 4y agoWhat I find especially amusing with Baltic and Slavic languages is that they also preserved much of the original corpora for bodily parts and associated activities, just as swear / taboo words. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/p%C3%ADsdeh%E2%82%82 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%83y%C3%A9b%CA%B0eti https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...