Re: Devanagari handwriting?

Pascal A. Kramm wrote:


> They just bear it, same as with amny other over-complicated thing in
> Sanskrit not found in most other languages (e.g. dual case).
Hmm. You meant dual number, didn't you? It's not as rare as you may think.
It was present in Old Russian (its remnants are still found in all East
Slavic lgs as a "counting form", to be used with numerals 2, 3 and 4 in Nom.
and Acc.), Old English (in personal pronouns), florishes in Hebrew and
Arabic etc.

ObConlang: imitating what Farsi does, Ajami will have a limited set of
borrowed Arabic duals, like |tarafayn| 'both sides' - du. from |tárafo|
'side (of agreement)'.

-- Yitzik

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