Re: About Romance natlangs and conlangs (Re: ) (LONG)

Grandsire, C.A. wrote:
>
> John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > In Sardinian, the definite articles are "su" and "sa" from
> > Latin "ipse, ipsa" (the same one).  This can also be used in some dialects
> > of Catalan contrastively with the standard ille-based articles:
> > "la mort" = "Death (abstraction)" vs. "sa mort" = "the death (of which we
> > were speaking)".
>
>         I didn't know that. Thank you for this new information. Do you have any
> URL about Sardinian and Catalan?
That's actually rather wonderful!  What a wonderful distinction!  I
think
Teonaht is tending that way with "etsa," which means "same."  "Le" could
easily become a definite article intended only for abstractions or
generalities,
and "etsa" is more specific.  END OF AFMCL intrusion. ;-)

Sal
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