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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Dutch gender
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In article <32FA3376.26CA@sn.nono>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@sn.nono> wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
>
>> (Interesting that Dutch and North Germanic have -- independently? --
>> converged on common/neuter; does Low German do the same?)
>
>North Germanic: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faeroese.
>
>Standard Swedish and Danish have lost the masculine/feminine
>distinction, and so has one single Norwegian dialect (the Bergen
>dialect, which happens to be my native dialect).  All other Norwegian
>dialects and both written standards have retained it.  Most Swedish
>dialects have retained it, and Danish dialects range from one to three
>genders.  Icelandic and Faeroese have both retained all three genders.

You mean, if I had chosen to say "some dialects of *Danish*" instead of
"some dialects of Dutch" in my previous posting, this entire tangent on
Dutch noun gender could have been avoided?

Ay Chihuaua!

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