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But in Arabic and Somali is it possible to talk about people who live nearby while obscuring whether they're male or female?
by maw 16y ago
But in Arabic and Somali is it possible to talk about people who live nearby while obscuring whether they're male or female?
- mahmud 16y agoYes, Arabic (juwaar/jiraan) and Somali (daris/jaar/jiraan) None of those words carry gender because they're plural. In the singular, Arabic uses the male "jaar" word for both genders. While the same word is plural in northern Somali, since, as mentioned, it has no singular word. Arabic also has the dual (jaaraan/jaarataan) our two neighbors (m/f)