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  2. Esperanto vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The original word base of Esperanto contained around 900 root words and was defined in Unua Libro ("First Book"), published by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. In 1894, Zamenhof published the first Esperanto dictionary, Universala vortaro ("International Dictionary"), which was written in five languages and supplied a larger set of root words, adding 1740 new words.

  3. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.

  4. Category:Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    This category and its subcategories are arranged according to Romance languages tree at Ethnologue. Each specific language should go under its own language group, unless it is too hard to establish that group.

  5. Romance verbs - Wikipedia

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    Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonological, syntactic, and semantic changes. Most of the distinctions present in classical Latin continued to be made, but synthetic forms were often replaced with more analytic ones. Other ...

  6. Romance plurals - Wikipedia

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    Romance languages can be broadly divided into two broad groups based on the historical trajectory that the pluralization of nouns, articles, and adjectives took. In the first group, consisting of the Romance languages north or west of the La Spezia–Rimini Line (i.e. Western Romance ), plurals are generally formed by the addition of the plural ...

  7. Correlative - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, a correlative is a word that is paired with another word with which it functions to perform a single function but from which it is separated in the sentence.. In English, examples of correlative pairs are both–and, either–or, neither–nor, the–the ("the more the better"), so–that ("it ate so much food that it burst"), and if–then.

  8. Conjunct - Wikipedia

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    Still, I love you from the bottom of my heart. A conjunct is one of the terms that are conjoined in a conjoining construction. Conjuncts are conjoined by means of a conjunction, which can be coordinating, subordinating or correlative. Conjuncts can be words, phrases, clauses, or full sentences.

  9. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Print two words taken from a list of salutations; Do the following 5 times: Choose one of two sentence structures depending on a random value Rand; Fill the sentence structure from lists of adjectives, adverbs, substantives, and verbs. Print the letter's closing [9] The lists of words were compiled by Strachey from a Roget's Thesaurus. [10]