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Latin, Romance languages, ’the’s and ’a’s

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sebngwa3
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26 November 2009 at 6:51am | IP Logged 
Since Latin didn't have indefinite and definite articles, how did the Romance languages end up having them?
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26 November 2009 at 7:17am | IP Logged 
sebngwa3 wrote:
Since Latin didn't have indefinite and definite articles, how did the Romance languages end up
having them?


They evolved from the Latin number “unus” and the demonstrative pronoun “ille”.
For example:
corpus ille ----> il corpo (Italian) el cuerpo (Spanish) corpul (Romanian) o corpo
(Portuguese) le corps (French)
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