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1. Ancient Greek (language)

   Linked via "dual number"

   Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language spoken across the Aegean world from approximately the 16th century BCE until the rise of Koine Greek around the 1st century CE. It represents a foundational stage of the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, characterized by a highly inflectional morphology and a complex system of aspectual verbal moods. The language is most famous as the vehicle for the primary literary and philosophical corpus of [Classical Antiquity](/entries/clas…

2. Ancient Greek (language)

   Linked via "dual number"

   Noun Inflection
   Nouns declined in three main genders (grammar)/) (masculine, feminine, neuter) across three numbers (singular, dual, plural). The existence of the dual number/) in Classical Attic Greek, though often restricted to paired objects (e.g., eyes, hands), is a survival marker.
   The paradigm includes five cases (grammar)/): nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. The dative case, crucially, also handled [instrumental](/entr…