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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, titles) which has no plural form, but other animated (e.g. animals) and all unanimated nouns have it. However pronouns are divided according to animacy (who/what, he/it, etc.).

In Nûrlâm

Nûrlâm dialect treats all nouns and pronouns as plural and unanimated by default. Therefore English relative pronouns who and what were supposed to be translated with the same word. But it's considered that pronouns splits into two categories based on animacy

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