[lojban] Re: ki'a

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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.

phma


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