What are some languages that don have definite or indefinite articles?
The majority of the world’s languages, in fact. I actually can’t immediately think of any non-Indo-European languages that have both definite and indefinite articles. Some languages have a definite article but not indefinite, like Arabic and Hebrew. Some languages have words which are used for the same pragmatic purposes as Indo-European articles, but aren’t strictly articles. These words are usually demonstrative determiners (“this”, “that”, “those”, etc.); definite articles actually evolved from demonstratives in most cases. You may be surprised, given the prevalence of definite articles in the world’s large modern Indo-European languages, to learn that even Proto-Indo-European didn’t have articles. Even Vulgar Latin, the progenitor of French, Spanish and Italian (which all have articles) didn’t have articles. An easier question to answer would be, which languages do have both types of article. I think there are a pretty small, finite number. Edit: according to a comment on Kalle’s a
