And the Basques use different genders in their verbs! (I think it
depends on the addressee.)
On 10. Feb, 2007, at 6:45, Adam Goddard wrote:
> On 10/02/2007, at 9:21 PM, matthiasm wrote:
> English's gender system is rudimentarily basic. European, Asian and
> Middle Eastern languages have gender systems not always based on the
> physical gender of the object being discussed, but can come from a
> variety of factors including word origins (especially for words
> borrowed from completely different languages) and mostly on
> individual dialects/regional variations.
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