Articles in Lingojam          QaaticUls in QliIgGjam

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Take any sentence and get rid of the articles ("the", "a/an", and "some") you can still pretty much understand what it's saying. For example, "A boy plays the game" and "boy plays game" are pretty much the same.

 

Having a distinction between "a" and "the" isn't needed that much. "The boy" and "A boy" both mean almost the same thing because it could still be referring to any boy. The only difference "the" has over "a" is when it gives higher authority to the noun. "The boy" gives the impression that that boy is special, while "A boy" is just an ordinary boy. What do you guys think? Could we go without articles? I know some languages do.

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Lingojam teachers have worked for decades in East Asian and SE Asian countries and no matter how hard you try to 'push' articles into students; they still don't use them. The deduction is that articles deliver far fewer benefits when balanced against the huge difficulty for non-European natives, to learn and use them.

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In Lingojam - articles are out! However, if you want to use them, for your own 'peace' then go ahead. Expect confusion from others when you use Lingojam outside of Europe.

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Some languages do not have articles such as Latin, Russian, and most Asian languages like Thai, Burmese, Mandarin. However, there seems to be no difficulty in conveying information in these languages.

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There you go. That’s the answer. Plenty of major languages get along just fine without articles, so clearly no, they are not necessary. The information they offer is important, but it doesn’t have to be provided by articles. 

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If so, if we remove articles from a language, will it impact the delivery of information?

Yes, it will impact the delivery of information. Existing native speakers of languages with articles are used to using articles, and if you somehow magically take them away, those people will end up confused and have some minor difficulties communicating. Eventually, they’ll figure it out, and if articles are lost naturally in the course of language evolution, there’s no problem.

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The pen  =  dE pen

The evening  =  dE eevEniI   ('the evening' in Anglish characters is rendered dee eevEniI  but in Lingojam, to keep things uniform dE is used, instead.)

The evenings  =  dE eevEniI-iz

a pen  =  E pen

some pens  =  dE pen-iz

an arch  =  En aaC

some evenings  =  dE eevEniI-iz