Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
I'm not sure that French and Spanish have fewer inflections than Russian. how many forms does a spanish verb have? Don't forget that obligatory, inseperable unstressed pronouns are a part of the verb, in fact.
Latin verbs have more forms have more forms, but the noun declension is much more regular than in Russian.
That's a good point, Marcus -- French and Spanish have simpler noun inflection than Russian, but a more complex system of verb conjugation than either Russian or English.

As to Latin, I'm not sure what you mean by saying that its noun declension is "more regular" than in Russian. Overall I would say that Latin and Russian nouns are roughly similar in their complexity, from the perspective of a native English speaker, while Latin verbs have much more complicated inflections than Russian.