Timeline for Are there other languages, besides English, where the indefinite (or definite) article varies based on sound?
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 17:10 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | @Kyralessa Definite articles count. Sound changes that are not reflected in writing count. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 11:17 | comment | added | Kyralessa | @AdamBittlingmayer Romanian is an example of one that doesn't change article based on the sound of the following word. (Though this only applies to indefinite articles, as they're the ones that precede their word; definite articles are appended to the word in Romanian.) Greek is another example. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 9:05 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | Is there a language with articles where this does not happen? I can't think of one. | |
| Oct 4, 2020 at 20:47 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 4:18 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | @jknappen, French un (like at least some other words ending in a nasal vowel) grows a consonant before vowels, but its own vowel does not change. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/1108745224401100802 | ||
| Mar 19, 2019 at 12:41 | answer | added | iacobo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 16, 2019 at 18:43 | answer | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 16, 2019 at 4:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 15, 2019 at 22:04 | comment | added | jlawler | Articles, being short, unstressed, and extremely common, are subject to lenition, contraction, reduction, and deletion in every language, including sharing segments, like a napron and an orange. In every language that has them. That goes, btw, for other short, unstressed, extremely common grammatical particles. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 21:22 | answer | added | zdimension | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 17:22 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 15, 2019 at 16:14 | answer | added | Ignatius | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 16:10 | answer | added | LjL | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 14:53 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | In French, the pronunciation (but not the spelling) of the masculine indefinite article un depends on the beginning of the following word, it is pronounced like une before a vowel. The definite article is shortened to l' before vowels. There are also unwritten pronunciation differences for the plural les. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 14:50 | history | edited | Sir Cornflakes |
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| Mar 15, 2019 at 14:48 | answer | added | Sir Cornflakes | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Mar 15, 2019 at 13:56 | history | asked | Kyralessa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |