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Originally Posted by gatitoverde
...looking at/hearing Italian is like looking at French meets Spanish with some strange third element. I've seen the chart on how they evolved, and I know I don't have it right, but that's what it seems like.
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Italian is supposed to be the closest to vulgar Latin of all the romance langauges.
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Originally Posted by gatitoverde
Has anyone here ever poked at Romanian? I did for a couple of weeks and I remember being thrilled by its enclitic construction-- that the articles are suffixes to the nouns. It has seven cases of declension by the way. I wonder way its case system survived whereas the others lost all but a hint of theirs. ...
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Never had a chance to look into Romanian. But by your description, it sounds pretty interesting. How many cases did Latin have?