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Originally Posted by Tomisimo
Never had a chance to look into Romanian. But by your description, it sounds pretty interesting. How many cases did Latin have?
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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 . . .