Editing Afroasiatic languages (section)

===Modifiers and agreement===
There is no strict distinction between adjectives, nouns, and adverbs in Afroasiatic.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=312}} All branches of Afroasiatic have a lexical category of [[adjective]]s except for Chadic;{{sfn|Frajzyngier|2012|p=538}} some Chadic languages do have adjectives, however. In Berber languages, adjectives are rare and are mostly replaced by nouns of quality and [[stative verbs]].{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=279}} In different languages, adjectives (and other modifiers) must either precede or follow the noun.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=298}} In most AA languages, numerals precede the noun.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=279}}

In those languages that have adjectives, they can take gender and number markings, which, in some cases, agree with the gender and number of the noun they are modifying.{{sfn|Frajzyngier|2012|p=538}} However, in Omotic, adjectives do not agree with nouns: sometimes, they only take gender and number marking when they are used as nouns, in other cases, they take gender and number marking only when they follow the noun (the noun then receives no marking).{{sfn|Frajzyngier|2012|pp=539–540}}

A widespread pattern of gender and number marking in Afroasiatic, found on demonstratives, articles, adjectives, and relative markers, is a consonant N for masculine, T for feminine, and N for plural. This can be found in Semitic, Egyptian, Beja, Berber, and Chadic.{{sfn|Güldemann|2018|p=316}}{{sfn|Souag|2023|p=308}} A system K (masculine), T (feminine), and H (plural) can be found in Cushitic, Chadic, with masculine K also appearing in Omotic.{{sfn|Frajzyngier|Shay|2012|p=10}}{{sfn|Hetzron|2009|p=548}} The feminine marker T is one of the most consistent aspects across the different branches of AA.{{sfn|Meyer|Wolff|2019|p=266}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:smaller;"
|+ Masculine, Feminine, Plural agreement patterns in N T N, using data from {{harvnb|Greenberg|1960}}{{efn|Forms that do not follow the pattern are in parentheses.}}
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! Language !! meaning !!Masculine !! Feminine !!  Plural{{Efn|Some languages have an additional feminine plural form in -t that is not listed here.}}
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| Old South Arabian (Semitic) || this || ð-'''n''' || ð-'''t ''' || ʔl-'''n'''
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| Egyptian || this || (p-n) || '''t'''-n || '''n'''-n
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| Beja (Cushitic) || this || be-'''n''' || be-'''t''' || bal-'''īn'''
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| Tuareg (Berber) || relative verb form || ilkəm-'''ən''' || təlkəm-'''ət''' || ilkəm-'''ən-in'''
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| Hausa (Chadic) || possessive base || '''n'''a- || '''t'''a- || '''n'''a-
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