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Articles usually appear in the languages which (are starting to) lose inflection. Say, there is a Slavic language which had lost its cases and does have the art
by 0ld 8y ago
Articles usually appear in the languages which (are starting to) lose inflection. Say, there is a Slavic language which had lost its cases and does have the articles now - Bulgarian
It's all a kind of ouroboros of languages - if something gets simplified, something else appears there