Post 9z31fhTrT4cxZ7a4Tw by 61@en.osm.town
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 (DIR) Post #9z31fggwOxUn7Oh0EK by malerbabomba@mastodon.bida.im
       2019-07-24T15:18:42Z
       
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       The marvelous Basque #language.#euskara #gender
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fgszg98XimKd16 by 61@en.osm.town
       2019-07-25T01:09:15Z
       
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       @malerbabomba Are you at all aware of the difference between grammatical, social and biological gender?  And btw, whoever made that picture up got it wrong. In #Basque *there is no animate/inanimate* distinction that I can think of (I had at one point a rudimentary grasp of the language). There are simply no genders at all. Maybe our anonymous charter got confused by the ergative.  On the other hand, Basque distinguishes between male and female persons in at least two - 1/4
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fh3H3vMOEf8q2a by 61@en.osm.town
       2019-07-25T01:09:16Z
       
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       @malerbabomba places that I can think of: certain nouns such as man, woman, son, daughter, sister, brother, etc., and also in the second person singular familiar form “hi”, in which the verb is conjugated in one way or another depending on whether the subject is identified as male or female. The “hi” form is *very* familiar however and not commonly used (I ever met one person who used it, something to do with his native dialect).  So to - 2/4
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fhFgJnHir8wkNc by 61@en.osm.town
       2019-07-25T01:09:16Z
       
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       @malerbabomba summarise: Basque, like English for the most part, has no grammatical gender but it does distinguish between male and female people.  Bonus trivia: in Basque a child is “seme-alaba” which literally translates as “son-daughter”. This is actually somewhat consistent with the use of neuter in Indo-European languages (to dítě, das Kind, etc).  Long time non-user, I can no longer speak nor understand for the most part. Might have - 3/4
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fhTrT4cxZ7a4Tw by 61@en.osm.town
       2019-07-25T01:09:17Z
       
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       @malerbabomba got bits wrong myself. - 4/4
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fheUpX8O66YZ3g by malerbabomba@mastodon.bida.im
       2019-07-25T06:23:10Z
       
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       @61This became an intersting thread. I generally trusted the grammar map since I'm not a philologist. I'm getting into this with my contacts. 😁
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fhry1RuSlsrK3U by 61@en.osm.town
       2019-07-25T10:30:10Z
       
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       Hi @malerbabomba, I suppose that #map is good to get a conversation started but looks fairly dodgy. Without looking too deep I've already found some more mistakes: northern slavic languages have more than three genders: #Czech has four, #Slovak the same and #Polish I'm not sure but I believe it's four or five. This is because grammatical gender and animacy / inamimacy are basically the same thing: classes in a system of noun organisation.
       
 (DIR) Post #9z31fi7v48fbZMK3v6 by pet84rik@fosstodon.org
       2020-09-11T11:33:25Z
       
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       @61 really? I am slovak and I only know about 3 - feminine, masculine and neutral one @malerbabomba