including possessive phrases.

In Maasai, many morphemes are tone patterns. The tone pattern affects the case, voice and aspect of words, as in the example below:

Noun classes

There are three noun classes in Maasai: feminine, masculine, and place. Noun classes are often indexed via prefixes on nouns (ol-/?l- for masculine, e[n]/e[n]- for feminine), although other word classes such as demonstratives may also index gender. Although words belong to

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