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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Measure word |
 | | Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns. |
 | | Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers, closely akin, but distinct from grammatical number. |
 | | Measure words are part of the grammar of most East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese, plus Bengali just to the west of this area, as well as many Indigenous languages of the Americas near the Pacific coast, including Classic Maya. |
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