Re: What is a woman ?

Philippe Caquant wrote:

> Thank you everybody !
>
> It is very strange to me that in English, the female
> seems to be a marked form of the general term for
> "man". There usually seems to be 2 different or
> symetrical words, like "Mann" und "Frau" in German,
> "homme" et "femme" in French, "hombre" y "mujer" in
> Spanish, "muj'china" and "jen'china" in Russian. Are
> there other natlangs using the English system ?
Esperanto uses the -in- infix to indicate femininity, but I'm not sure
about any natlangs.