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Statistical analysis revealed the same mapping between reachable and non-reachable objects and demonstratives across all languages.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

They tested over 1,000 speakers to see how they use demonstratives in their language to describe where objects are across a range of different spatial configurations.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

G. has two other demonstratives, pēlō and ōlyō, both meaning “that.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

In all the sentences illustrating the cases of nouns and other parts of speech in this paper, the demonstratives are omitted.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)