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Re:New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages by ashleney on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:40AM (#36940104)
Languages tend to lose grammatical features (english gender) but also gain them (english habitual tense). A common way you can see languages get complex is due to sound changes making grammar irregular (english past participles).
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