nonesuch 56: gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns exclusively in 1st person plural, both inclusive and exclusive
- Where found
- Shirumba (Heiban, Kordofanian)
- Domain
- morphology: inflection
- Subdomain
- categories and their domains: gender, respect
- Keywords
- personal pronoun, inclusive, exclusive
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- Source
- Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1981). A Survey of Kordofanian, vol. 1: The Heiban Group. (SUGIA-Beihefte, 1.) Hamburg: Buske, pp. 82-83
Schadeberg 1981: 82-83 suspects that he got something wrong here, since such misbehaviour would be unique in this family, with no other Heiban language showing pronominal gender anywhere.