Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad))

--- Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
>
> How do others with conlangs with the familiar
> masc-fem-neut gender system
> assign gender to words?
>
>
>
>       *Muke!
Well, in C-a gender is marked by the final vowel of a
noun -- u for masc., a for fem., and i for neut.  No
nouns end any other way.  Adjectives take the gender
of the noun they modify except for pronouns used as
adjectives which take natural gender and numbers which
are indeclinable.

New nouns borrowed into C-a which do not already end
in a vowel simply duplicate the vowel of the last
syllable and tack it on the end.  If a foreign
borrowing ends in a vowel other than u, a or i a final
o becomes u, and a final e becomes i.

So if I wanted to borrow the English word keyboard
into C-a it would become (with allowance for C-a
spelling conventions) cibordu /kI'borU/.

Adam

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