Re: gender in indo-european languages

From: Skitt (skitt99_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:24:27 -0700

howard richler wrote:

> Unlike in English, most Indo-European languages have gendered nouns.
> I'm wondering, does there tend to be consistency in nouns being
> nouns being masculine or feminine (or neuter where applicable) in the
> various IE languages, or at least consistency of gender in nouns in
> the various Romance languages?

What sort of consistency do you expect? I don't think there is any. 

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