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====== Grammatical gender and animacy ====== | ====== Grammatical gender and animacy ====== | ||
- | Most Black Speech dialects copy English grammar in gender: nouns do not have this category but 3rd person singular pronouns split in three genders: masculine, feminine and neutral. Anyway gender has no special impact on inflection. Shadowlandian dialect differentiates nouns basing on relation to persons (names of races, professions, | + | Most Black Speech |
===== In Nûrlâm ===== | ===== In Nûrlâm ===== | ||
- | Nûrlâm dialect treats all nouns and pronouns as plural and unanimated by default. Therefore English pronouns like //who// and // | + | Nûrlâm dialect treats all nouns and pronouns as plural and unanimated by default. Therefore English |
Despite lacking of grammar gender for nouns the biological gender of person or animal can be clarified with ' | Despite lacking of grammar gender for nouns the biological gender of person or animal can be clarified with ' |