Re: Test and more.

Irina Rempt wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> > Well, in Saalangal you cannot tell the gender of anyone from the
> > pronouns. There are no pronouns for he and she, since both are
> > covered by 'taw' (he/she).
>
> In Valdyan gendered third-person pronouns (first and second person
> pronouns, nouns and adjectives have no gender) are only used if
> someone's gender is important: _lye_ (F) or _lei_ (M), also dual
> prefixed with i- and plural prefixed with a-.
>
> Otherwise, it's _lea_ "he/she" for animates, and _li_ "it" for
> inanimates.
>
>    Irina
>
        In Chasma"o"cho, animate is generally epicene (or sometimes neuter, as
things that don't have a sex can be animate) . Distinction between
masculine and feminine is possible, but only using long forms of the
affixes that are generally also formal. Short forms only distinguish
between animate and inanimate (there is no inanimate long form by the
way).

        In Moten, there are not even pronouns for the third person, but only
for the first _ga_ and the second _ba_, with plurals _telga_
(litterally: me and others) and _telba_ (litterally: you and others).
The third person uses demonstratives (generally _los_: yonder) which
don't even distinguish between animate and inanimate.

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