dog - dogs Saliba (Austronesian): natu-gu natu-gu-wao child-my child-my-PLURAL - gender or noun class: It. il libro ‘the book’ la casa ‘the house’ Swahili (Niger-Congo): m-tu m-zuri ‘a nice man’ n-yumba n-zuri ‘a nice house’ ki-tu ki-zuri ‘a nice thing’ - definiteness: a house – the house Sw. ett hus huset det röda huset