Editing Grammatical number (section)

===Transnumeral{{anchor|general number}}===
Many languages, such as [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Malay language|Malay]] (including [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]), particularly spoken in Southeast and East Asia, have optional number marking. In such cases, an unmarked noun is neither singular nor plural, but rather ambiguous as to number. This is called ''transnumeral'' or sometimes ''general number,'' abbreviated {{sc|'''trn'''}}. In many such languages, number tends to be marked for definite and highly [[animacy hierarchy|animate]] referents, most notably first-person pronouns.