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Dbavidian Gender-Wobds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Edwin H. Tuttle
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In Les langues du monde Bloch describes the two genders of Gôndi as representing the oldest Dravidian gender-system. This idea is wrong. Kanara and Tamil have three genders in the singular, male-personal (masculine), female-personal (feminine), non-personal (neuter); and two in the plural, personal and non-personal. The same basis, is implied by the other Dravidian gender-systems.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , February 1928 , pp. 770 - 778
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1928

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1 I use ë for a neutral vowel like that of English bakery; j = consonant-i; ς = Bohemian d'; θ = th in English thin; r = Arabic hamzah; N = voiceless n; R = voiceless r.

CG. = Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages, by R. Caldwell (1913, reprinted from 1875); US. = Ungarische Sprache, von S. Simonyi (1907).