There are two types of words for 9 in the Germanic languages.
Type 1 is g-less:
e.g. German 'neun', Swedish 'nio'.
Type 2 does have a g:
e.g. Dutch 'negen', Frisian 'njoggen'.
You'd think that English 'nine' is type 1, but it used to have a g too: in Old English, it was 'nigon'. It lost its g in Middle English.
So did 'neun' and 'nio' lose their g too?
No, they've never had one.
The g only evolved in the north-western branch of West Germanic.
My new graphic tells you all about it.
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@yvanspijk beautiful graphic. With what app do you create that? I am trying something simular for diffusion of innovative tools in education
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@mvanmartijn Thank you very much! It's good old handicraft in Microsoft PowerPoint. :) It takes quite a bit of time, to be honest.
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@yvanspijk aha. I can imagine taking a lot of time. I hoped it would be a mindmapping app or even output from a scientific analyses app. Me and ppt/ms office do not go well together
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@mvanmartijn Dat kan ik me voorstellen. Ik ben soms goed geneigd om heel Microsoft Office uit het raam te keilen als ik weer over bugs struikel die er tien jaar geleden ook al in zaten.
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@yvanspijk ik gebruik het alleen als het echt moet voor de samenwerking. Ik gebruik #libreoffice voor docs en spreadsheets, apple keynote voor presentaties. #scrivener voor grotere schrijfprojecten met van dezelfde maker #scapple voor mindmaps. Maar dat geeft niet echt grafisch mooie output.
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