Articles are used to give extra information about the noun they modify. In English the definite article is the and the indefinite article is a/an. However, many languages do not have articles. Here is a list of languages with no articles:
Languages Without Articles
Czech
Farsi
Hindi
Indonesian
Japanese
Korean
Malayalam
Mandarin
Polish
Punjabi
Russian
Shona
Slovak
Swahili
Tamil
Thai
Ukrainian
Urdu
Yoruba
Zulu
Articles are used in many languages. The Germanic and Romance languages all have articles, but they are not found in many of the major languages of the world such as Hindi, Mandarin and Russian. Many linguists believe that Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European languages, did not have articles.
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