[1] Possessive suffixes are found in some Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, Semitic, and Indo-European languages.
Complicated systems are found in the Uralic languages; for example, Nenets has 27 (3×3×3) different types of forms distinguish the possessor (first-, second- or third-person), the number of possessors (singular, dual or plural) and the number of objects (singular, dual or plural).
Omission of the possessive suffix makes it possible to distinguish the plural for the possessed objects, but that is not considered proper language: mun käsi "my hand" vs. mun kädet "my hands".
Systematic omission of possessive suffixes is found in Spoken Finnish, wherever a pronoun in the genitive is used, but that is found only in direct address: "Their coats are dry" is Niiden takit on kuivia (niiden lit.
Even in proper Finnish, the pronouns sen and niiden, which are the demonstrative as well as inanimate forms of hänen and heidän, do not impose possessive suffixes except indirectly.
There is also a distinction in meaning in the third person on whether or not the third-person possessive pronoun is used: Hungarian is another Uralic language.
However, the following are some different ways to express possession, using the word בַּיִת (bayit, house) as a base: In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a Modern Aramaic language, possessive pronouns are suffixes that are attached to the end of nouns to express possession similar to the English pronouns my, your, his, her, etc., which reflects the gender and the number of the person or persons.
[2] Although possessive suffixes are more convenient and common, they can be optional for some people and seldom used, especially among those with the Tyari and Barwari dialects.
The following are the alternative ways to express possession, using the word "bĕtā" (house) as a base: In Armenian, the following suffixes are used (Eastern standard):[3] Persian, an Indo-European language, has possessive suffixes: e.g. pedar-am my father; barâdar-aš his/her brother Central Morocco Tamazight's use of possessive suffixes mirrors that of many other Afro-Asiatic languages.