Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

Joseph wrote:
<<
About all I can find on-line is that Moro is also
called "Dhimorong", is/was in the Nile-Congo family. Supposedly SIL
did a enthographic study of Moro speakers in 1971
 >>

That's because there's a dearth of information out there.  There
was a grammar written about the dialect that my class isn't
working with, and the grammar was exceedingly poor (e.g.,
they said that prepositions are the class of words that can come
before or after a noun and which modify it adverbially in
some way [and which can occur as prefixes or suffixes]).

Other than that grammar, Moro has been referred to in surveys
of Kordofanian languages.  So what you get is a look at the
distribution of stops in about 20 different languages from the
same language family, and there might be a sentence or two
on Moro.  Hopefully we'll be able to get some information out
there after this class.

Joseph also wrote:
<<
I'd not looked at the sites for Láadan in quite some time. It does
seem that they're down to the ones Ms. Elgin maintains. If you've
any interested, we are going to be going some classes on the Laadan
list on YAHOO starting in about 10 days.
 >>

Well, I'm not *that* interested (or non-busy).  I just thought since
the point was to have a women's language, it might be interesting
to see that this one feature, which is so often mentioned in discussions
of language and gender (non-grammatical), actually falls on the
other side of the gender-line in a natural language.

-David
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