Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

Alternate Title: Genders, Classes, and Agreement, oh my! We talk today all about gender.  Or noun class.  Or both.  Really, they are the same thing, at least we think so.  Anyway, after a vivid and lively discussion on what can be done with the wonderful world of arbitrarily classifying nouns we review Taruven Top of Show Greeting: Knæknæk Links and Resources: — Zompist on gender (More in the book.) — WALS pages Number of Genders Sex-Based Gender Gender-assignment — Interesting gender systems Yanyuwa (Australian) Anindilyakwa (Australian) Ganda (Bantu) Featured Conlang: Taruven (newer link here — the grammar we used is very old) Feedback: We won something! (Link may die.  Let me know if it does.)