Re: Lingua Eurana tradition

li [Padraic Brown] mi tulis la ...

> Interesting. For languages (like Latin) that have no articles, it's
> not a problem (though it clearly became a problem as the centuries
> passed!) English speakers will forever be asking "is it *THE* dog or
> *A* dog?"! That is a key distinction in many European langauges, and I
> find it entirely annoying that I have no idea what dog you're talking
> about! There might be a dozen dogs in the vicinity, and there's no way
> to distinguish them in Eurana!
> 
> I like articles, and Kerno has its share. Definite, indefinite and
> undefined (neither definite nor indefinite):

Languages without articles usually still have some way to
represent the idea using demostratives or impersonal forms.
That's the system I've settled on for Sasxsek.

	kanin sit nizu mes.
	dog sit low+PREP table.

Assumes that contextually it is already known which dog we are
talking about.


	ci/ti kanin sit nizu mes.
	this/that dog sit low+PREP table.

Specifies a particular dog.  


	ui kanin sit nizu mes.
	some dog sit low+PREP table.

Means no dog in particular.




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