Bob LeChevalier wrote:
Yanis Batura wrote:There are only 1342 semantic hint classes.Most natural languages using a semantic classifier system have a couple orders of magnitude fewer classes (they are commonly called "genders", Swahili has 14, and Russian has only 3), and they work anyway.
The semantic classifier system has nothing to do with gender, which Lojban doesn't have. The equivalent of a type-3 fu'ivla is a word like "killifish", where the first part has no meaning by itself, and the second tells what kind of thing the referent is.
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