Re: articles
| From: | B. Garcia <madyaas@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 31, 2005, 9:03 |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:02:58 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
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> Nor I.
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> Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric languages, possesses both definite and indefinite
> article. This may be, as Maxime suggests, due to influence of neighboring
> IE languages (tho its Slav neighbors have not developed them). But
> articles also occur in Polynesian languages, and these have nothing to do
> with IE langs. For example:
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> Maori: te hoiho = "the horse" ~ he hoiho = "a horse"
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> Samoan: 'o le fae = "the house" ~ 'o se fale = "a house"
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It seems the trigger marking particles in Tagalog get mistakenly
called articles in translation:
Ang bahay - the house
Ng bahay - a house
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