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  1. Dual Number Marker

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    The Dual Number Marker is a morphological feature found in several natural languages, typically indicating that the referent of a noun or pronoun consists of exactly two entities. Unlike the singular (one)/) and the plural (more than two)/), the dual explicitly denotes binarity. While common in ancient Indo-European languages such as Proto-Indo-European and its descendants (including the reconst…