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How native speakers pronounce “uno”

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while most definite articles routinely evolve from pronouns like 'they' or demonstratives like 'this'. Sometimes this is extremely transparent. For example, Spanish has 'uno' for one, but also uses 'uno' as the indefinite article 'a' or 'an', and

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

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while most definite articles routinely evolve from pronouns like 'they' or demonstratives like 'this'. Sometimes this is extremely transparent. For example, Spanish has 'uno' for one, but also uses 'uno' as the indefinite article 'a' or 'an', and

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

them the most interesting pronoun here them the most interesting pronoun here is uno because it doesn't come from is uno because it doesn't come from

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