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-====Gender====
+====Gender and class====
+<!--''origou'' and ''amirou'' -->
 There are two [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]]s in the Ris language, the [[w:animacy|animate]] ({{sc|an}}) and inanimate ({{sc|inan}}). The animate gender includes only living animals and insects, as well as supernaturals like spirits and deities. The inanimate gender mainly denotes non-living objects, abstractions as well as flowers and microorganisms.
-In the 2nd and 3rd person singular personal pronouns as well as verbs, the animate splits into a feminine ({{sc|f.an}}) and masculine ({{sc|m.an}}) animate gender. These mark only natural gender.
+In addition to this, all Ris nouns are divided into classes. The classes are morphological and semantic, and nouns are grouped according to their gender as well as if it is inherently in the indefinite plural, or if it needs marking. There are as such four classes:
+:'''I''' - ''animate, marked indefinite plural''
+:'''II''' - ''animate, unmarked indefinite plural''
+:'''III''' - ''inanimate, marked indefinite plural
+:'''IV''' - ''inanimate, unmarked indefinite plural''
+The class is the only thing indicated in Ris dictionaries, such as the [[User:Waahlis/Jivanity|Ourhagmatika]], published by the Ris Council of the Community.
 ==Morphosyntax==