Re: articles

Stephen Mulraney wrote:
> J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:07:07 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'd like to know if there are only some places in the worlds where
>>> languages possess articles and also if the majority does or doesn't use
>>> articles
>>>
>>> I searched and all languages I found wich have one or two articles
>>> are IE
>>> or are situated near of some IE languages
>
>
>
>> The older IE languages didn't use articles either (Latin, old
>> Germanic). And
>> I think Slavic languages don't have them either, but I don't know for
>> sure.
>
>
> You're right, they don't ...
Ah, I thought I was replying to Maxime at this point.. ah well.

s.
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