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Among the comments on an old post, a question about definite articles has been posed, and I thought it deserved it’s own post. Here’s the question:

Does anybody know if a system like the definite/indefinite article system exists in any other languages beside Indo-European and Semitic ones?

I can’t think of any non-Indo-European or non-Semitic languages with definite and/or indefinite articles. Can you?