Indefinite articles tend to be confined to determining the singular of count nouns. Nevertheless, there may be exceptions where the article has been extended to nonsingular referents. Thus, Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Baka (Adamawa-Ubangian, Niger-Congo), Bulgarian (S. Slavic, Indo-Hittite), Ewe (Kwa, Niger-Congo), French, Spanish (both Italic, Indo-European), and Uzbek (Turkic, Altaic) distinguish indefinite markers in the plural of the nouns. Classical Arabic, Baka, and French distinguish definite markers on mass nouns as well. (See Heine et al. 1995)
Indefinite articles tend to be confined to determining the singular of count nouns. Nevertheless, there may be exceptions where the article has been extended to nonsingular referents. Thus, Classical Arabic (Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Baka (Adamawa-Ubangian, Niger-Congo), Bulgarian (S. Slavic, Indo-Hittite), Ewe (Kwa, Niger-Congo), French, Spanish (both Italic, Indo-European), and Uzbek (Turkic, Altaic) distinguish indefinite markers in the plural of the nouns. Classical Arabic, Baka, and French distinguish definite markers on mass nouns as well. (See Heine et al. 1995)