Re: My languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 2, 2001, 4:14 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> So there's strong correlation between what gender a word is placed in and
> what chategory the corresponding thing is in in Utakassi? I mean, Germans
> certainly don't consider girls inanimate, yet _Mädchen_ "girl" is neuter.
A very strong correlation, with the exception that abstract qualities
and plants are largely randomly distributed between 6 and 7. A few
lower animals (insects and the like) are also gender 6. But, that's
because they're not really considered to be animals.
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