Re: Very culture-specific noun classes...

I really like this! Very natlang. My next conlang (already in the pipeline;
very "consonantal" - i.e., ejectives, implosives, three-vowel system,
vaguely 'Pacific Northwest') will definitely feature classes - not just noun
classes, but adjective classes too. How much attention do you pay to
conculture-specific concepts, by the way? Omeina has (for instance) a strict
hierarchy of "naming" animates - people/"presences"/certain animals and
plants/"Ilma" (bright stars) that a speaker ignores at his peril. A person,
for instance, will have one of four or five names, depending on who they are
addressing or being addressed by, or who named them, and for what reason.
Mike

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...snip
> the correct use of noun classes would be a matter of life and death.
>
> As in all languages related to Taruven, the world is divided into
> animates (living and/or sentient) and inanimate (non-living or
> non-sentient) objects. Furthermore, Charan marks animates according to
> their status, which are from highest to lowest:
>
> Animate nouns:
>     Member of a House
>     Unknown whether a member of a House or not
>     Not a member of a House
>     Incapable of being a member of a House
...
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