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Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Differences Between Inanimate and Inanimate

There are two genders in the language animate and inanimate. Some things have different marking so he's using the word for dog and the word for mountain as examples of each. One thing he does a pretty good job of is distinguishing where the prefix orders fall which is nice because we've had other languages that have lots of affixes that don't tell us what order they go in.

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