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

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

>         In all Romance natlangs, the indefinite article seems to come from
> Latin "unus" (1) and the definite article from Latin "ille" (yonder).
Mostly.  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)".

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