Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

yún halí ri kabro:

> > >For those who aren't sure, I'm not offended by referred to
as an "it,"
> > >but I suspect I'm also in the minority there.
> >
> > To me, "it" suggests an inanimate object, and you seem to be rather
animate!
> > I usually refer to a person of unknown gender as "they"; this also works
> > well if the person has multiple personalities.
>
> Oh, sure!  :-)  I use "they" as well generally...it's just that "it"
> wouldn't offend me if someone chose to use it, is all.
>
> YHL, who dislikes languages that care about sex/gender distinctions out
> of habit
ObConlang:
Kansú has four pronouns in the 3s: masculine, feminine, neuter and
non-gender specific, riú, rie, rio and rí. On the other hand, the plural of
all of these is toi.
Actually, the Kansú pronominal system is hideously complex. In the singular
all pronouns distinguish masculine and feminine, the second person has
polite, familiar and contemptuous versions (zyo and çyos are the contempuous
versions, FWIW), and the 1p distinguishes inclusive, exclusive, masculine,
feminine and mixed gender.

Also in Kansetic news, I've finally given Kansú it's own script. It's based
on the Aramaic and Hieratic scripts (although it is fully vocalised) and is
written right-left.

sú kabrév vyo ça cias cazáya!

Dan

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