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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by mc32 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:27PM (#33631766)
Maybe... Spanish and Portuguese ware used in trade a lot and they don't seem to have simplified much. On the other hand, like English Danish has simplified even further, but it was never a great trade language --it may have been a language of trade in the Baltic basin many centuries ago but not in the last half dozen centuries.
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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:11PM (#33633584)
> Spanish and Portuguese ware used in trade a lot and they don't seem to have simplified much.

Latin is another standard example of a language losing complexity due to being learned by large numbers of adults. Greek still has a system of noun cases. Spanish and Portuguese don't.

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