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Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:39 pm
by Anonimulo
Quick question(s): PIE had/has gender, right? M, F, and N? So, I know how that get simplified into M and F a lot, but are Bengali and English the only established IE langs that merge them all into M (i.e. genderlessness)?
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:57 pm
by Yng
Some dialects of Scandinavian do. Afrikaans does. Uhhhm. I can't immediately think of any other examples.
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:51 pm
by Legion
Neither Armenian nor Persian have gender. Walloon has almost completly lost gender.
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:11 pm
by Magb
Some other languages related to Bengali have also lost grammatical gender, e.g. Assamese, Maithili and Magahi.
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:28 am
by Mecislau
Also, PIE did not have M/N/F. At least not early on.
Early PIE is believed to have had an animacy-based system. Late PIE had developed this into a M/N/F system.
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:04 am
by Åge Kruger
YngNghymru wrote:Some dialects of Scandinavian do.
Which ones?
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:18 am
by Travis B.
Åge Kruger wrote:YngNghymru wrote:Some dialects of Scandinavian do.
Which ones?
West Jutish dialects and some East Swedish dialects.
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:19 am
by Cockroach
Åge Kruger wrote:YngNghymru wrote:Some dialects of Scandinavian do.
Which ones?
Ask Miekko
Re: Gender in IE Langs
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:01 am
by Miekko
Cockroach wrote:Åge Kruger wrote:YngNghymru wrote:Some dialects of Scandinavian do.
Which ones?
Ask Miekko
Somewhere around Karleby.