Re: Pronoun gender in Ikanirae Seru

Hello,

> > > (Is it still called
> > > gender if masculine and feminine are not categories,
> > > or is there another term?).
> >
> > I believe it's still gender. It's "grammatical gender" as opposed to
> > "biological" or "physical" gender.
>
> In the Bantu languages, gender is called "noun class".
So is it in Caucasian ones.

And of course strictly speaking gender divisions are a subclass of noun
class divisions (this is more apparent in systems like Russian or
German, where the distinction isn't much motivated semantically)

Pavel
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