Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes


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Alternate Title: Genders, Classes, and Agreement, oh my!

We talk today all about gender.  Or noun class.  Or both.  Really, they are the same thing, at least we think so.  Anyway, after a vivid and lively discussion on what can be done with the wonderful world of arbitrarily classifying nouns we review Taruven

Top of Show Greeting: Knæknæk

Links and Resources:

— Zompist on gender (More in the book.)

— WALS pages

  • Number of Genders
  • Sex-Based Gender
  • Gender-assignment
  • — Interesting gender systems

    • Yanyuwa (Australian)
    • Anindilyakwa (Australian)
    • Ganda (Bantu)
    • Featured Conlang: Taruven (newer link here — the grammar we used is very old)

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