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Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Complexity of a New Word

In Spanish there are a couple of cases where he's masculine it's one thing if he's feminine it's another. In Swedish almost all new words go into common gender rather than neuter. Everything else becomes much more complex how do you decide where that word ends up in some languages?

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