Languages With Compound Verbs
Compound verbs are very common in all the languages of India, though they are more frequent in the northern Indo-Aryan languages than in Dravidian languages. In addition to Hindi-Urdu and Panjabi, they occur in other Indo-Iranian languages like Persian, Marathi and Nepali, in Tibeto-Burman languages like Limbu and Newari. Also, they are very frequent in Altaic languages like Korean, Japanese, and in Turkic languages Tatar, Kazakh, Nogai, Uyghur, Uzbek, Bashkir and Kyrgyz, and in northeast Caucasian languages like Tsez and Avar. The Indo-European language Greek also possesses some verb–verb compounds.
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