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Spoke to a friend yesterday, he majors in lingustics at uni, and he said that in addition to -то, -та in South Russian dialects there was also another form of the definite article in some North...

Впринципе да, одного поля ягода. Только вот в то время как в литературной речи мы не говорим все время "та, того, той", мы можем лишь эпизодически их использовать для усиления, конкретизирования и...

Of course it is different! But not always. I feel the ancestry is there.
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Of course it is. Of course this where it came from. But the point is that while in standard Russian -то can only...

AFAIK they should be written with hyphen:

дай карандаш-то!

Старик-то etc.

A little echo of them remains even in modern Russian. Apart from defining the subject, it can reflect a touch of...

The article in question is the definite article то and та. Yep, it may well have been derived from demonstrative pronouns. Here's how they are used:

Дай карандаш. - Give me a pencil.
but
Дай...

I never said you did. And more words you don't have because it doesn't matter how many words there are in dictionaries, what counts is how many words an educated native speaker knows. Now, to suggest...

Whaaaaaa'? English has more nuances than Russian? Dream on! I can assure you that as you're making progress in Russian you will be finding more and more nuances. In fact, I don't think it's possible...

No, it isn't possible to learn a language by watching TV. This is a popular misconception, but alas science has evidence to the contrary. Hang on, wait a minute, but how do babies learn? The answer...