nounclass
Noun class is a grammatical system that groups nouns into categories, or classes, which are marked on the noun and influence agreement with other parts of speech. In many languages, each class has a particular prefix or affix that signals membership, and adjectives, determiners, pronouns, and verbs often agree with the noun’s class.
Noun class systems are most famously associated with Bantu languages, where a single noun may bear a
In practice, a noun class system means that agreement is a pervasive grammatical device, shaping sentence structure
Noun class is cross-linguistic and not identical to grammatical gender. Some languages have explicit class numerals,