Alaina P. answered • 05/25/19
Tutor in All Things Writing!
Yes! Though most languages which use articles tend to distinguish mainly between definite and indefinite (with other indicators to show subtype, like grammatical gender), there are indeed others. Maori, for instance, uses "a" for proper nouns. Past this, however, you get into how to define articles, which are a subset of determiners. Most people would not say that English "some" is an article, but it's very similar to the French and Italian partitive articles, which are used with mass nouns to indicate a non-specific amount of the noun, like water. Haida has a partitive article which refers to part of something or one or more objects of a certain category. In some analyses, the negative determiner, such as English "no," is an article.
