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Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

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The History of German Plurals

In ancient greek there was no neuter-prol so when they got around to inventing one they just used a collective noun derivational element which is dramatic that's singular. Some people think that ancient proto-inter-european only had the animate inanimate distinction uh-huh before the animates split off into masculine feminine. In languages that have dramatic number sometimes in animates don't get to be pluralized or are pluralized only sometimes. So often natural semantic gender will take over that's an interesting thing and it fights with natural gender throughout the history of greek.

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