Genders (was:[OT] Re: Conlangea Dreaming)

From: "Nik Taylor"

> Hmm, Utakassí has *7* genders.  For rational (language-using) entities,
> there are three - male, female, and epicene.  Epicene is rarely used in
> the singular, outside of dictionaries.  The epicene died out in many
> dialects, including in the Koine variety, in those dialects, the female
> took over as a generic.
Géarthnuns *had* seven genders in its infancy. Since gender and declension
were always intimately linked, however, the gender system eventually just
gave way to a pure declension system.

Émars (a woman's name), Anders (a man's name), and "burs" (tree) would all
take the pronoun "saur", as they are all second declension names/nouns. Thus
the seven third person pronouns all can mean "he/she/it".

Kou