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--- Henrik Theiling skrzypszy: > Southern/Balearic Catalan (and I think Sardinian, too) has > articles derived from 'iste'. E.g.: [...] Sardinian too! And keep in mind that it also exists in demonstratives like Italian "questo" (< ECCO ISTUM) and French "ce/cet" (< ECCE ISTUM). --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy: > > I like the sound a lot. Does any romance > > conlang derive its articles this way? > > Not that I know of, but Brithenig and Kerno > derive 3rd person pronouns from that root. Pretty > close anyway! I used to have them in Wenedyk as well for the third person, but didn't like the forms. So at some point, I substituted them with the more conventional "iÅ?" and "Å?a". Of course, Wenedyk has no articles. Jan "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." http://steen.free.fr/ . ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos � NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com