[tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic RootsofClassicalCivilizati

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:

>
> In the Eurasian region, the definite article appared first in the
> Near East and rapidly thereafter Greek also got this feature. Later
> Latin/Romance also got it, and then the Germanic languages.
>
> The Slavonic languages have not yet got this feature, except those
> bordering to the Greek area.

The Balto-Slavonic weak adjectives appear to have incorporated an
article. The Germanic system of weak and strong adjectives is also an
old system of marking definiteness marking, predating the modern
articles, though perhaps not the addition of an article.

Richard.