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Re: Devanagari handwriting?

From:azathoth500 <azathoth500@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 2004, 3:36
I was under the impression that the dual wasn't used much in modern Hebrew

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:23:53 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> 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.

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Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>Dual (was: Devanagari handwriting?)