Surkian/gender

This page deals with gender in the Surkian language. The four genders are: human, flaura-fauna (often abbreviated to Fauna), objects and abstractive. In Surkian, genders are very important. Nouns, adjectives, numerals, articles and even demonstratives are inflected by gender.

Human gender
The human gender (sometimes abbreviated 'HU') is the first gender in Surkian. There are no fixed rules when it comes to which noun belongs to which gender, but it is often very obvious. Some example words that belong to the human gender: Please note: even though animals have body parts to, all body parts belong to the human gender.
 * mäl (man)
 * fāne (woman)
 * pipi (child)
 * ōne (uncle)
 * pis (mouth)

Flora-fauna gender
The flora-fauna gender (sometimes abbreviated to 'Flauna' or 'FL') is the second gender in Surkian. Almost all things that have to do with nature belong to this gender. Some example words:
 * göĝovam (plant)
 * munik (monkey) 
 * bant (sheep)
 * härdā (garden)
 * löva (sun)

Objects gender
Basically all inanimate nouns belong to this third gender in Surkian (sometimes abbreviated as 'OB'). Some example words:
 * päter (table)
 * kōder (basement)
 * satälpat (chair)
 * vätäĝe (airplane)
 * ort (house)

Abstractive gender
To this gender belong all things-you-cannot-touch. Some example words:
 * Rova (Europe)
 * dyde (energy)
 * räns (dance)
 * ibirav (history)
 * dvat (sound)

One gender, one letter
Each gender has its own letter than you'll see back a lot with inflections. The human gender has o, flaura-fauna has a, objects have o and abstractive has i.