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Gender sensitiveness of numerals in Slovene.

Gender sensitiveness of numerals in Slovene.

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Figure 1. Relative number of equal sounds in pairs of adjacent numerals...
Gender sensitiveness of numerals in Slovene.
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Linguistic Distances Based on Counting of Equal Sounds in Numerals from 1 to 10 in Different Language Groups
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  • Aug 2019
The relative frequency of equal sounds in pairs of adjacent numerals from 1 to 10 in languages of eleven language groups is a basis for calculation of linguistic distances. By this criterion, the Slavic languages form a cluster separated from all other tested languages. Of other languages, Avestan and Sanskrit are the closest to them. The Germanic...
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... English, for example, the numerals are not gender sensitive: one man, one woman etc. In Slavic, Slovene for example, they are gender sensitive up to the numeral 4, Table 1. To be consistent, the masculine form of the numeral is used wherever this dependence is known. ...