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===Other languages=== Some [[Iranic languages]], including [[Persian language|Persian]], have developed inflected prepositions. For example, Persian {{Transliteration|fa|az u}} {{gloss|from him/her}} becomes {{Transliteration|fa|azaš}}; {{Transliteration|fa|bā šomā}} {{gloss|with you {{gcl|PL}}}} becomes {{Transliteration|fa|bāhātun}}. In [[Iberian Romance languages]] such as [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], the preposition {{lang|es|con}} or {{lang|pt|com}} {{gloss|with}} has special forms incorporating certain pronouns (depending on the language). For example, in Spanish and [[Asturian language|Asturian]] {{lang|es|conmigo}} means {{gloss|with me}}. Historically, this developed from the Latin use of {{lang|la|cum}} {{gloss|with}} after a pronoun, as in {{lang|la|mecum}} {{gloss|with me}}. [[Bororo language|Bororo]], an indigenous language of Brazil, uses postpositions in all contexts: {{lang|bor|tori ji}} {{gloss|about the mountains}}. When these modify a pronoun rather than a full noun, the phrase contracts into an inflected postposition<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Grammar of Bororo|last=Crowell|first=Thomas Harris|publisher=University Microfilms International|year=1979|location=Ann Arbor, MI}}</ref> (and therefore looks like a pronominal prefix, rather than a suffix as in the examples above: {{lang|bor|bagai}} {{gloss|for}}, {{lang|bor|i-wagai}} {{gloss|for me}}).
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