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Yeah, the articles the comes from masculine, that from feminine, and this from the neuter demonstrative. That's what I was talking about. It seems I was mistake
by inawarminister 5y ago
Yeah, the articles the comes from masculine, that from feminine, and this from the neuter demonstrative. That's what I was talking about. It seems I was mistaken, no wonder Interlingua makers used Romance masculine demonstrative le for their universal article due to using English as grammatical source.
Ille, illos, illa
Le, les, los, las, etc
Romance languages inventing gendered articles from gendered demonstratives is always fun.
(Especially since my language, Malay, has no grammatical gender at all, not even in the third person; and have no regularized article.)
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Demonstratives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Demonstr...