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

John Cowan wrote:
>
> "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)".
>
        I didn't know that. Thank you for this new information. Do you have any
URL about Sardinian and Catalan?

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