Re: Wenedyk - The article
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 1, 2002, 20:32 |
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Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:
> >From now on, I'll regularly be posting about Venedian grammar.
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> Part one - the article - will be very short.
> Wenedyk has no articles. If Latin didn't have them, and the Slavic
> languages don't have them, then why would Wenedyk be supposed to
> have articles?
That would depend on the circumstances surrounding when you say
these Romance speakers migrated to their current location. Worthy
to note is that the area around Berlin used to be Slavic speaking,
until Germans took over. They didn't lose their article there.
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