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Gender in Rówok is complicated; there are indeed two types of vowel structure in a word (either '''-a/-e''' or '''-o/-u''', but there is no semantic association to either category, and adjectives do not change to agree with their head nouns in any way but [[#Number|number]] and [[#Nouns|case]]. | |||
The protolanguage [[Ruk]] did not have gender, and what little bits of gender there are in Rówok are new inventions picked up from contact with IE speakers. Even then, the language's internal vowel structure doesn't allow for the inherited endings to show in both vowel types. So '''-o''' can be added to an o-vowel word do emphasize a things masculinity, and '''-a''' can be added to an a-vowel word to emphasize its femininity, but there is no way to explicitly show the feminine in an o-vowel word and no way to show the masculine in an a-vowel word. | |||
=====Person===== | =====Person===== | ||