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  1. Armenian Language

    Linked via "dual number"

    The Classical Period (Grabar)
    The earliest attested form of the language, Classical Armenian or Grabar, solidified following the introduction of the alphabet. Grabar served as the liturgical and literary language for over a millennium. Grammatically, Grabar is notable for its use of the dual number for pairs of objects that are emotionally or philosophically linked, such as "the two hands of praise" ($2 \times \text{hand}_{\text{praise}}$), a feature lost in the [modern vernaculars](/entries/mod…

  2. Breton Language

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    Nominal System and Case
    Breton/) possesses grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) but has lost the neuter gender found in earlier Brythonic stages. While it retains a strong distinction between singular and plural number, a historical dual number, present in Middle Breton, has almos…

  3. Celtic Languages

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    However, in many modern dialects, particularly in coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, the syntactic order exhibits diachronic flux, frequently defaulting to SVO order under conditions of high emotional stress or when discussing meteorological phenomena [6].
    Morphologically, the Celtic languages are notable for the development of the "personal ending" on prepositions when followed by a pronoun, creating unique fused form…

  4. Greek Language

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    Ancient Greek (c. 800 BCE – 300 CE)
    This broad period encompasses the emergence of the classical literary dialects. Although it is often treated monolithically, Ancient Greek comprised numerous, often mutually unintelligible, dialects, the most significant being Attic (the basis for Classical prose and drama) and Ionic (favored for historical narrative). Homeric Greek, the language of the [epic…

  5. Greek Language

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    Nominal System
    Nouns are declined for three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and three numbers (singular, dual, plural—though the dual is vestigial in Modern Greek). The case system has simplified significantly from the eight proposed cases of Proto-Hellenic (including the noted Ablative of Inconvenience from Proto-Italic influence) down to four primary cases in [Modern Gre…