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As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, they are around 100. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent.

^{Note: I removed the false positives or the ones that arose as not fitting.}

As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, there seem to be around 100. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent.

^{Note: I removed some obvious false positives that arose as not fitting but some may remain.}

As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, they are 102. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent.

^{Note: I removed the false positives or the ones that arose as not fitting.}

As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, they are around 100. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent.

^{Note: I removed the false positives or the ones that arose as not fitting.}

As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, they are 102. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent:

Africa

America

• Hawaiian;
• Lakohta;
• Quileute;
• Pipil
• Rama;
• Squamish;
• Tzutujil;
• Yaqui.

Asia

• Arabic (iraqi);
• Armenian (eastern and western);
• Byansi;
• Cebuano
• Coptic;
• Japanese;
• Mangghuer;
• Nar-Phu;
• Nias;
• Qiang;
• Tajik;
• Thai;

Europe

• Albanian;
• Breton;
• Danish;
• Dutch;
• English (although technically "an" derives from the weak form of Old English ān ‘one.’);
• Frisian;
• Hungarian;

Oceania

As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. More explanations on the main page.

After a quick search I did, it surprised me to see some languages on this list that seemed to use the same word for one and the indefinite article, such as Dutch. I might be wrong, it seems, so you might want to look more in depth for the ones you want to study more.

Anyway, they are 102. I'll list them below for ease of reference alphabetically and ordered according to the continent.

^{Note: I removed the false positives or the ones that arose as not fitting.}