Re: Gender in language

Paul J Kriha wrote:

You don't really need languages with lots and lots of genders.
Many languages also have four, some even as many as seven,
declensions. Correctly gendered and declined adjectives and
nouns will give you a quite good resolution. And then you might
have even verbs with gender markers.

Swahili is like that. It has eight or sixteen genders (depending on
who's counting), and the verbs are marked for the genders of the
subject and object.

--
Stefano

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