Re: ONOMATOPOEIA: Check out "Cross Linguistic Phonethemes"
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 1, 2002, 17:28 |
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On Monday 01 April 2002 06:12, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Rokbeigalmki's gender system is based on physical sex - there are
> four genders: |o| /o/ male, |i| /i/ female, |uh| /V/
> neutral/common/epicene, and |u| /u/ neuter/inanimate.
> Groups of mixed sex, individuals of unknown or irrelevant sex, and
> sexless animates use the |uh| gender; inanimate objects like rocks
> use |u|.
Exactly like the Ilaini gender system, in fact. What about animals? In
Ilaini they're never "it", usually epicene, and sometimes masculine or
feminine when it's relevant (for instance if you want your mare
serviced).
Irina
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