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Conlangery #30: Numeral Systems

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The Origins of Romance in Ancient Greek

In ancient Greek the general rule in ancient Greek is with prepositions of motion date of indicates location accusative indicates motion to and genitive indicates motion away from. In Latin it's the accusative still means motion to and the ablative has merged the functions of both separation and motion not motion location okay so but he has he he has different cases here right and then that's again a perfectly expected inheritance from LatinYeah he's he's basically just lost a bunch of the the Latin cases which a lot of the romance language have lost all of them so it's not surprising does he have gender I can't see yes yes yes let me see if I can find it it's just three and

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