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| hster Newbie Sweden Joined 5028 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Italian | Message 1 of 33 25 June 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to get a list of all languages that have declined nouns.
So far I have come up with: Ancient Greek Latin Lithuanian Russian Off the top of your head, do you know any others? Thanks 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 33 25 June 2013 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Other languages with noun declinations (= cases):
- German (4 cases) - Finnish (16 cases) - Hungarian (20 cases) - Turkish (6 cases) - Polish (7 cases) * Please correct me, if the numbers of cases are faulty. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 25 June 2013 at 6:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 3 of 33 25 June 2013 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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For Finnish, the number of cases would be 15. Since the accusative sometimes looks like
the nominative or genitive, some people don't count it as a separate case. Perhaps the figure of 16 comes from cases that appear outside the standard language? at least I remember that the dialect of Savo has an extra case. Other languages with cases would be Icelandic and Faroese and the other Slavic languages (does Bulgarian count?). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 4 of 33 25 June 2013 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't forget Modern Greek, Albanian, Latvian, Estonian, and Romanian. Last but not least: the Goidelic languages (Irish and Scottish Gaelic).
EDIT: I think Arabic has declension, too. Right? EDIT 2: I corrected my mistake with the Celtic languages. Edited by Josquin on 26 June 2013 at 11:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5600 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 5 of 33 25 June 2013 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Classical Arabic had this feature (3 cases), but the Modern Standard Arabic uses them sparingly and the dialects have got rid of them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 6 of 33 25 June 2013 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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- Western Armenian (6 cases)
- Eastern Armenian (7 cases) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 33 25 June 2013 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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While Swedish may have lost most of the case distinctions, it retains the genitive -s (and accusative/dative in some set phrases).
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 8 of 33 25 June 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Welsh and Breton don't have cases, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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