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How about a linguistic comparison table?

Language Number of noun inflections Number of verb conjugations
English 2 (singular and plural) 3 (eg. sail, -ed, -ing) – also the remnants of an ablaut system
Latin 12 (nom. s. & pl., acc. s. & pl., gen. s. & p., dat. s. & pl., abl. s & pl., voc. s & pl.)* Over 100(?) Verbs can express person, pluralism, and tense

(*) In practice many of these are the same, eg. the vocative usually mirrors the nominative.

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