>From: joe <josephhill@...>
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:40:32 +0100
>
>
> > joe wrote:
> > > (montanian for woman is translated as "Breasted Man")
> >
> > Interesting! What's "Man" then, in the sense of "adult male human"?
> > Just the plain root "Man"? Are there *any* words that differentiate
> > between male and female? What about "father" and "mother"?
> >
>
>Person/man is khu. There are no single words that differentiate. Tallak khu
>means woman,when necessary to differentiate and lhallud is parent. Tallak
>lhallud is only used when it is absoloutly necessary to differentiate
>between father and mother.
>
So the default gender on all words is male? there are no "female" words in
the language making all feminine references highly marked. Is there a
concultural reason for this extreme bias?
Adam
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