Rara #52

Legacy number: 52

 Number  52
 Phenomenon  a divine gender (for nouns for gods, saints, comets, and other supernatural referents), contrasting with masculine, feminine, animal, and inanimate genders
 Found in  Jicaltepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  gender, noun
 Source  Bradley, C. Henry (1970). A Linguistic Sketch of Jicaltepec Mixtec. (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields, 25.) Norman, Okl.: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.
 Violates  none

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