Re: definite/indefinite articles

Quoting Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>:

> >Articles are not necessary, and many languages don't have them.
> Actually,
> I think they are quite rare. Your question reminds me of another I meant
> to
> ask here: are articles an Indo-European creation?
>
> They exist in non-Indo-European languages like Hawaiian, Mayan, and
> the
> Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic. I've seen at least one
> language
> that marks definiteness with a suffix, but I can't remember what that
> was.
> And of course there are Indo-European languages without them.
The Scandinavian languages and Rumanian does this, but they're of course IE.

                                                              Andreas