I was reading about case systems because I was curious where they came from in the first place because the past like 1200 years of european linguistic history is them vanishing
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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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Indeed. Bulgarian had cases but after Turkish occupation they went away. Only slavic language without cases today.
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