Saxon genitive
possessive 's

The uniqueness of this dialect is the use of the partitive or Saxon genitive.

The particle nia forms the possessive, and can be used in a similar way to the Saxon genitive in English, e.g.:

For example, the English so-called "Saxon genitive" (the "'s" modifier, as in "John's father" or "the King of Spain's house").

The only real vestige of the case system on nouns in Modern English is the "Saxon genitive", where s is added to a noun to form a possessive.

(The English possessive in -'s is sometimes called the Saxon genitive; this alludes to its derivation from the genitive case that existed in Old English.)

This form, particularly in English language teaching, is sometimes called the Saxon genitive, reflecting the suffix's derivation from a genitive case ending in Old English (which in older scholarship was known as Anglo-Saxon).