Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

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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