Romani borrows indefinites from various contact languages: Greek, Macedonian/Bulgarian, Serbian/ Croatian, Slovene, Rumanian, Turkish, Albanian, Hungarian, Slovak/Czech, Polish, Russian, German, Italian, and French. Borrowings of negative temporals are also attested in Aromunian spoken in Macedonia (Romance, IE) and Chamorro spoken in Guam (Western Malayo-Polynesian). Saami (Finno-Ugric) has two loans of determiners (used as person indefinites as well). Arabic specific determiner “fulan” ‘some, a certain’ has spread almost all over the Muslim world, and beyond. Persian indefinite loans are frequently recognized in a number of Iranian languages (Elsik 2001).
