Austronesian alignment may work with nominative (and absolutive) or ergative (and absolutive) markers and pronouns. Transitivity is usually required for ergative marking in an absolutive/ergative language. Kapampangan pronouns are categorized by case&colon; absolutive, ergative, and oblique. The three cases are absolutive, ergative and oblique. Georgian has seven noun cases&colon; nominative, ergative, dative, genitive, instrumental, adverbial and vocative. The person suffixes express the persons of the absolutive subject/object and the ergative subject. The name stemmed from the ergative and absolutive cases. Hiligaynon has three types of case markers&colon; absolutive, ergative, and oblique. There are five cases in Kashmiri&colon; nominative, dative, ergative, ablative and vocative. The modern nominative case suffix "-i" is derived from an earlier ergative case marker *. Beekes claims the sigmatic genitive-ablative developed from the ergative. The subject of a transitive verb receives a special case suffix, called the "ergative" case. The agentive is used for ergative and instrumental functions. This suffix applies to all singular unpossessed nouns in the ergative case. The Kaluli are monolingual in ergative language.