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Re: R: "Roumant", or whatever it may be called. PART III

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 22:31
En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Mangiat wrote: > > [...] Sardinian has the > > coolest article I've ever seen amongst Romance langs? It's derived > from > > 'ipse': su, sa. ex.: sa oche /sa Oke/(the voice). > > Some dialects of Catalan do this as well (notably on the Balearics, and > I think algherese too) and even have a contrast: > > la mort: Death > sa mort: the death (of which we were speaking) >
I think I've read about this constrast already. But I didn't remember it. Still I find it quite nice! Christophe.