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Iranian Languages
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Old Iranian Stage: Examples include Old Avestan and Old Median (the latter known only through highly fragmented inscriptions and indirect historical testimony).
Middle Iranian Stage: Key representatives are Parthian and Pahlavi (Middle Persian). Pahlavi, especially its literary form, displays a peculiar orthographic system wherein many written words are pronounced as entirely different, unrelated words, a practice believed to h… -
Locative Case
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Uralic Substrate Influence (The Finnic Anomaly)
In the Finnic languages, particularly Finnish, the equivalent function is overwhelmingly handled by the Inessive case, which marks 'being inside'. However, analysis of early Finnish loanwords from East Germanic languages reveals instances where the Locative sense was preserved phonologically but syntactically forced into the [Inessive](/entries/inessive-case/…