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Reading fractions
In Japanese (and other East Asian languages), the denominator of a fraction is read as a part of the modifier to the numerator:
3分の5
'five that was divided by three'
'five thirds'
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Is there a study available on the similarities between Japanese and Turkish grammars?
No I'm not claiming the Altaic hypothesis so try not to bring that up in answers.
Still there are grammatical similarities between Japanese and Turkish such as agglutination and use of postpositions ...
