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Re: No pronoun, no article

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Sunday, October 19, 2003, 19:04
In a message dated 10/19/2003 2:58:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:


>Yep - as very natlangs function very nicely without articles, there >must be a large number of conlang without them also.
>. . .
>I'm fairly certain Volapük didn't have them. Certainly BrSc (whatever >form it eventually takes and name it is given) will not have them.
According to Alan Libert in his book _Mixed Artificial Languages_, Volapuk had both a definite article ("et") and an indefinite article ("un"). Doug

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>