Re: Montanian

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From: "Adam Walker" <dreamertwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: Montanian


> >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
> 
> 
> 
Actually, there is no default gender, khu can mean woman just as much as man.

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