which English has lost. However, that similarity between German and Russian is not evidence that German is more closely related to Russian than to English but means only that the innovation in question, the loss of the accusative/dative distinction, happened more recently in English than the divergence of English from German.

Origin and development

In classical antiquity, Romans were aware of the similarities between Greek and Latin, but did not study them systematically. They sometimes

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