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Old May 16, 2008, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Tomisimo View Post
Never had a chance to look into Romanian. But by your description, it sounds pretty interesting. How many cases did Latin have?
Latin has 6, Russian, 6, and Greek, 4. The only other major influence I can think of on Romanian is Italian--though late in its development--except for . . . Slavonic, which turns out to have 7 cases, identical to the Romanian cases. So I guess that's where it got 'em, or at least some of them.

And this is totally off the subject but it occured to me because of the language I just used. 'Em may not be a degraded form of them, but rather a carry-over from a variant of Old English--more northerly than the main contributor to modern English--wherein the word was hem. I discovered that in the course of my orthography research, and found it interesting, so . . .
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