Interesting language characteristics 3

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In thread1256-1032369, SantaMufasa posted:

Keep in mind that articles ('a','an','the') do not exist in many languages.

I knew that Russian does not support articles (and, if recall correctly, conjugation of the verb "to be" in the first-person present tense). Out of monkey curiosity, what other languages do not support articles?


Also, a lot of Romance languages do not support the neuter gender. As I studied German, which supports an explicit neuter gender, in both high school and college, this came as something of a surprise to me.

Anyone know of other interesting characteristics of languages other than English?

 

[SilentAiche]

rwong,

Too funny.

I, too, asked for a raise. I was given more [green]celery[/green] by my vegetative boss...

Tim

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