it seems like an iron law that case systems go away when you're forced to interact daily with distant language branches/families
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like old english loses its case system upon contact with the danes. all the old norse-descended languages lose theirs except icelandic. romance obviously from germanic contact etc
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other than romanian ofc, was relatively isolated/independent by comparison. same with finns slavs hungarians
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(basically the process sounds cyclical, you have all these cool adpositions you use to much they blend together with the words forming cases, then you get...
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...lazy about the cases so they fuse together, then you're like shit we don't know what any of these words mean anymore so you come up with some adpositions)
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I have a crackpot theory that the PIE flamen/brahmin caste invented the PIE language as an IQ-signaling mechanism, and proliferated inflections to make the priestly language as difficult as possible.
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It’s not really credible that any ordinary person ever actually spoke Sanskrit; there are vastly too many obscure verb forms. The brahmins invented it, and since it was the prestige dialect, a rounded-off version trickled down to hoi polloi.
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this seems like one of those "of dubious truth but incredibly seductive/pattern-fitting" ideas like the bicameral mind thing
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oh hey speak of the devil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil
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I am no expert on this subject so the only thing that Wikipedia article that really made sense to me was: "No person, including Quijada, is known to be able to speak Ithkuil fluently." Still found it fascinating though.
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Pretty clearly invented for IQ-signaling purposes, though!
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Iirc the decline started much earlier and even Latin once had 7.
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Well, not entirely. For example, Czech today is more highly inflected than Old Czech was.
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