Editing Measure word (section)

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In [[linguistics]], '''measure words''' are words (or [[morpheme]]s) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate an amount of something represented by some [[noun]]. Many languages use measure words, and East Asian languages such as [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and [[Korean language|Korean]] use them very extensively in the form of [[classifier (linguistics)|number classifiers]].