Question

While both Dari and Persian use a modified version of the alphabet of this language, the mutually intelligible dialect Tajik is written in Cyrillic. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language, whose dialects include Modern Standard, Maghrebi, and Egyptian.
ANSWER: Arabic [or al-ʿarabiyyah]
[10h] One difference between old Persian and Middle Persian is the loss of this number. Arabic and Hebrew retain this grammatical number in addition to the singular and plural.
ANSWER: dual
[10m] Persian is one of the few Indo-European languages that lacks this feature. In German, this noun category is distinguished by the use of the articles der, die, or das.
ANSWER: gender
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2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y616.67100%33%33%

Data

Swarthmore AColumbia A1010020
FordhamSwarthmore B1010020
LehighUniversity of Delaware B100010
NYU AUniversity of Delaware A1001020
NYU BNYU C100010
PrincetonPenn1001020