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  1. Dual Number Marker

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    While most frequently studied in Indo-European, the concept of explicit binarity appears in unrelated language families, supporting the hypothesis that quantificational distinctions are universal, even if morphology is not.
    Uralic Echoes
    Although the Proto-Uralic system is generally reconstructed as having three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), surviving descendants, such as certain dialects of the Mari language group, exhibit dual marking …