Re: Sex-neutral gender?

 Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> writes:

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> AFMC: In the Tetros language family on my world, there are two genders.
> Tetrosian languages are spoken on an island continent and the outlyign
> island in the southwestern part of the world. The inhabitants are elves who
> live their lives on the shore of he seas. They are good swimmers and
> sailors.
> In the traditional philosophy of these elves, their world existed between
> the air above and the water below. So everything they had either came from
> air, or from the water. Their language has two genders: water-words and
> sky-words and all nouns are genedered on the basis of their assumed origin:
> "sun"", "bird" and "wind" are sky-words, "grave" is a water-word, as is
> "death", "birth" and "child" since their women traditionally give birth in
> the water.
> Abstract concepts are also tied to either sky or water, although sometimes,
> it is not very clear why a word is a sky-word or water-word. Even the script
> of these elves was originally based on the water-sky distinction, since in
> early days, priests used great bowls of water that were struck to produce
> various types of ripples on the surface to communicate with the gods (I
> wrote something about that in a thread a month ago or so).
>
I'd like to see an example of this script if you have one. :)

Elliott

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