The Set animal is one of the most frequently demonstrated animal determinatives. The determinatives "people" has been the subject of significant scholarly discussion. They all have to agree with the determinatives "min" and "eigen" in gender and number. In transliterations of Sumerian, the determinatives are written in superscript in lower case. Determinatives are not pronounced, but help distinguish homophones. In Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, determinatives came at the end of a word.