Hausa article-and-demonstrative profile (WALS Chs 37, 38, 41, 42, 43) #
@cite{wals-2013}
Hausa (Afro-Asiatic, Chadic): no definite or indefinite article; four-way person-oriented demonstrative system (one of WALS's key examples of a 4+ way system): near speaker, near hearer, away from both, far away (some terms tonally differentiated); same forms for pronominal and adnominal demonstratives; 3rd-person pronouns related to demonstratives.
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