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Originally Posted by Perikles
I think this phenomenon is more relevant to Indo-European languages than others. Turkish (a member of the Finnish-Hungarian language group) has for example only one irregular verb, to be and other languages have no irregular verbs at all. But I'm out of my depth here.
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I understand that there are only two languages in which "to be" is completely regular: Swahili (the inter-tribal dialect, as opposed to the dialect spoken by the Waswahili) and Esperanto (which is, of course, artificial).