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 ===Determiners===
-There are three types of determiners in Peshpeg that occur either as suffixes, such as the definite and demonstrative suffixes, or as quantifiers, independent words that precede their noun heads to which they are joined with the linker ''mon'', e.g. ''Vadzini mon Golahách mon nodorzhi uzanio pepak'' "Many of the Ín Duári slaves revolted that day".
+There are three types of determiners in Vezhuan that occur either as suffixes, such as the definite and demonstrative suffixes, or as quantifiers that precede their noun heads, e.g. ''Vadzini dulach nodorzhi uzanio pepak'' "Many of the barbarian slaves revolted that day".
 The definite marker refers not only to specific or highly referential nouns, but may also refer to an abstract noun class that would normally be considered concrete e.g. ''gazhda'' < ''*gal-gda</u>'' "the (class of animals known as) horse".  The definite marker is also used to nominalize verbs, e.g. ''lozha'' < ''loz-<u>sha</u>'' "singing".  The definite marker, which occurs as a suffix, has different forms that agree in number and gender with their noun heads; however, it does not mark for case.  The forms for the definite marker are as follows: