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== Languages with dual number == *[[Afroasiatic languages]] **[[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] (including [[Coptic language|Coptic]]) **[[Semitic languages]] ***[[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] (Assyrian and Babylonian) ***[[Biblical Hebrew]] ***[[Classical Arabic]] ****[[Gulf Arabic]] (in nouns) ****[[Levantine Arabic]] ****[[Maltese language|Maltese]] ***[[Sabaean language|Sabaean]] ***[[Ugaritic]] **[[Chadic languages]] ***[[Hdi language|Hdi]] *[[Austronesian languages]] **[[Tagalog language]] **[[Cebuano language]] **[[Ilocano language]] **[[Polynesian languages]] ***[[Māori language|Māori]] (only the personal pronouns) ***[[Samoan language|Samoan]] (only the personal pronouns) ***[[Tongan language|Tongan]] (only the personal pronouns) ***[[Tahitian language|Tahitian]] (only the personal pronouns) ***[[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] (only the personal pronouns) **[[Chamorro language|Chamorro]] (reflected in the verb) * [[Indo-European languages]] ** [[Avestan language|Avestan]] ** [[Ancient Greek]] ** [[Germanic languages]] (only first and second person pronouns and verb forms) *** [[North Frisian language|North Frisian]] (only pronouns in some dialects) *** [[Gothic language|Gothic]] *** [[Old Frisian]] (only the personal pronouns) *** [[Old English]] (only the [[Old English pronouns|personal pronouns]]) *** [[Old Norse]] (only the personal pronouns) **** [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] (only the personal pronouns) *** [[Old Saxon]] (only the personal pronouns) ** [[Insular Celtic languages]]: *** [[Old Irish]] *** [[Irish language|Irish]] (only nouns, only following the numeral for ''two'') *** [[Scottish Gaelic]] (only nouns, only following the numeral for ''two'') ** [[Old Church Slavonic]] ** [[Old East Slavic]] ** [[Sanskrit]] *** [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] (largely, but not limited to, nouns for paired body parts; concurrent with the [[instrumental case]])<ref name="bhardwaj">{{cite Q|Q112671425}}</ref> ** [[Slovene language|Slovene]] ** [[Chakavian dialect|Chakavian]] ** [[Sorbian languages]]: *** [[Lower Sorbian language|Lower Sorbian]] *** [[Upper Sorbian language|Upper Sorbian]] *[[Pama–Nyungan languages]] **[[Woiwurrung–Taungurung language]] **[[Yidiny language|Yidiny]] **[[Barngarla language|Barngarla]] * [[Uralic languages]] ** [[Khanty language|Khanty]] ** [[Mansi language|Mansi]] ** [[Nenets languages|Nenets]] ** [[Sami languages]] * Other natural languages **[[Alutor language|Alutor]] ** **[[Dogrib language|Dogrib]] (only in the first person) **[[Hopi language|Hopi]] (nouns) **[[Hmong language|Hmong]] **[[Inuktitut]] **[[Khamti language|Khamti]]<ref>"Khamti." Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <www.iitg.ernet.in/rcilts/phaseI/languages/khamti.htm></ref> **[[Khoe languages]] **[[Komo language]]<ref>Otero, Manuel A. "Dual Number in Ethiopian Komo." ''Nilo-Saharan: Models and Descriptions''. By Angelika Mietzner and Anne Storch. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, 2015. 123-34. Print.</ref> **[[Koryak language|Koryak]] **[[Kunama language]]<ref>Idris, Nikodimos.1987. ''The Kunama and their language.'' Addis Ababa University BA thesis.</ref> **[[Lakota language|Lakota]] (only the personal pronouns, always means "you and I") **[[Mapuche language|Mapuzungun]] **[[Melanesian Pidgin (disambiguation)|Melanesian Pidgin]]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> (several related languages) **[[Mi'kmaq language|Mi'kmaq]] **[[Nhanda language|Nhanda]] **[[Santali language|Santali]] (nouns) **Most [[Sign language]]s<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Pfau |first1=Roland |title=Sign language: an international handbook |last2=Steinbach |first2=Markus |last3=Woll |first3=Bencie |date=2012 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-020421-6 |series=Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft |location=Berlin |pages=231–232}}</ref> **[[Tonkawa language|Tonkawa]] **[[Xavante language]] **[[Yaghan language|Yaghan]] *Constructed languages **[[Quenya]] (elvish language created by [[J.R.R Tolkien]]) **[[Adûnaic]] (human language created by [[J.R.R Tolkien]])
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