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* A different solution is to mark indefiniteness: this is commonly done by using either ''leila'' "one" or, in colloquial speech, ''sorasmā'' "some kind of". | * A different solution is to mark indefiniteness: this is commonly done by using either ''leila'' "one" or, in colloquial speech, ''sorasmā'' "some kind of". | ||
Chlouvānem as spoken in the area around the mid-course of the Lāmiejāya river (the central Plain: roughly the whole of the diocese of Raharjātia, most of Jolenītra, Daikatorāma, Vādhātorama, and Namafleta, and parts of Mūrajātana, Perelkaša, Ryogiñjātia and far northern Sendakārva) do have a definite article, which is actually the repurposed archaic demonstrative pronoun ''ami'' (still used as "this" in Archaic Chlouvānem). It declines for case, but not number, mostly following the pronoun declension (that is, exactly as ''tami'' without the initial ''t-'' except for the accusative (''amu'') and ergative (''amye'')). | Chlouvānem as spoken in the area around the mid-course of the Lāmiejāya river (the central Plain: roughly the whole of the diocese of Raharjātia, most of Jolenītra, Daikatorāma, Vādhātorama, and Namafleta, and parts of Mūrajātana, Perelkaša, Ryogiñjātia and far northern Sendakārva) do have a definite article used with non-topicalized arguments, which is actually the repurposed archaic demonstrative pronoun ''ami'' (still used as "this" in Archaic Chlouvānem). It declines for case, but not number, mostly following the pronoun declension (that is, exactly as ''tami'' without the initial ''t-'' except for the accusative (''amu'') and ergative (''amye'')). | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||