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Breton Language
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Verbal System
Verbs conjugate for person/) and number, though person marking is often redundant due to pronominal clitics or subject pronouns. Tense/) formation is complex. The present tense is formed via suffixation, while the past tense is frequently formed using an auxiliary verb followed by a past participle derived from a historical form … -
Early New Persian Language
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The ENP verb system retained the complex bipartite structure inherited from Old Iranian, utilizing distinct present stems (derived from the imperfective root) and past stems (derived from the perfective root). However, the inflectional complexity was significantly reduced compared to Pahlavi.
Crucially, the ENP period saw the formal establishment of the preterite participle construction that would define later New Persian tense formation. The s… -
Ladino
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Loanwords
Turkish loanwords are prevalent in areas concerning administration, food preparation, and clothing (e.g., tavuk for chicken, replacing the Spanish pollo in some dialects). Greek influence is strong in maritime terminology and flora. The influence of Slavic languages, particularly Bulgarian, is no… -
Ladino
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A curious feature is the obligatory placement of the object pronoun lo or la before the main verb in subordinate clauses concerning aesthetic judgment, a structure that has no clear analogue in other Iberian Romance languages (Almagro, 2010).
The expression of future tense often relies on the periphrastic construction involving the auxiliary verb aver (to have) followed by the [infinitive](/entries/infinitive/… -
Mandarin Chinese
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Grammar and Syntax
Mandarin Chinese is classified as an isolating language or analytic language, meaning it relies minimally on inflectional morphology (such as tense marking on verbs or case endings on nouns). Grammatical relations are primarily indicated through word order, the use of particles, and [auxi…