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		mh-cx on Oct 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Awful German Language (1880) Makes sense - still it feels odd, coming from the “other side“. I wonder when this split happened. About dieser/diese/dieses, that would be tento/tato/toto (this/that here).

0ld on Oct 6, 2018 [–]

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

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