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* It uses an auxiliary verb to form the imperative plural, while using a bare form of the verb for the singular. | * It uses an auxiliary verb to form the imperative plural, while using a bare form of the verb for the singular. | ||
* Practically every transitive verb can simply drop its direct object core argument and so become intransitive, if the direct object is obvious enough from context. Subjects can be dropped if they're obvious too.<sup>{Mandarin Chinese}</sup> | * Practically every transitive verb can simply drop its direct object core argument and so become intransitive, if the direct object is obvious enough from context. Subjects can be dropped if they're obvious too.<sup>{Mandarin Chinese}</sup> | ||
* It only has four basic colours: white, black, red-orange, green-blue.<sup>{Classical and Post-Classical Latin: ''albus, niger, ruber, viridis.'' Isidore (7th c.) describes the colour of the sea as sth between ''viridis'' and ''niger'', instead calling it ''caeruleus''}</sup> | * It only has four basic colours: white, black, red-orange, green-blue.<sup>{Classical and Post-Classical Latin: ''albus, niger, ruber, viridis.'' Isidore (7th c.) describes the colour of the sea as sth between ''viridis'' and ''niger'', instead of calling it ''caeruleus''}</sup> | ||
* It uses a lot of parataxis, that is, it often uses clauses seemingly at the same level as the main clause where English and your typical European language would use a subordinate clause.<sup>{Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese}</sup> | * It uses a lot of parataxis, that is, it often uses clauses seemingly at the same level as the main clause where English and your typical European language would use a subordinate clause.<sup>{Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese}</sup> | ||