Zero copula is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship (like the copula 'to be' in English). One can distinguish languages that simply do not have a copula and languages that have a copula that is optional in some contexts.
Bengali, Kannada, Malay/Indonesian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ganda and Sinhala exhibit this phenomenon.
Dropping the copula is also found, to a lesser extent, in English and many other languages, used most frequently in rhetoric and casual speech.
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