Talk:Coeur d'Alene language

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Gender in Coeur d'Alene language?[edit]

I greatly appreciate the effort the authors of this entry have invested to bring this knowledge to the public! But it is rated as a stub, so there are some things missing. Notably, with such detail on other points of grammar, this article doesn't mention how gender works in the Coeur d'Alene language. With one exception that shows either male or female, all the examples of third person are male, which appears very gender insensitive to me like saying "mankind" to mean human beings. I am very curious to know whether Coeur d'Alene has animate/inanimate gender, such as Anishinaabemowin. I realize these are completely different language families, but it seems possible. It would be wonderful if this article clarified the question of gender in the Coeur d'Alene language! Coryannyyz (talk) 15:50, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]