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| * '''对象 (dui xiang).''' Term that means one's romantic partner. It is gender neutral. | | * '''对象 (dui xiang).''' Term that means one's romantic partner. It is gender neutral. |
| * '''配偶 (pei ou).''' Term that means one's partner in marriage. It is gender neutral. | | * '''配偶 (pei ou).''' Term that means one's partner in marriage. It is gender neutral. |
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| == Cornish ==
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| Cornish, like all other modern Celtic languages, has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. Although the way that gender-neutral nouns and non-binary people are referred to in terms of grammatical gender, and the impact that those nouns would have on adjectives, is yet to be determined, Cornish has a complete set of non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns:
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| |+Paradigm of the Cornish non-binary pronoun
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| !Purpose
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| !Word or element in Cornish
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| !Examples
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| |Personal pronoun
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| |'''hynn''', '''hydn''', '''hedn'''
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| |'''Hynn''' a wra dos avorow.
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| ''They will come tomorrow.''
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| |Possessive adjective
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| |'''ho<sup>2</sup>''' (causes soft mutation)
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| |My a wra '''ho''' weles avorow.
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| ''I will see them tomorrow''.
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| |Infixed pronoun
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| |'''<nowiki/>'gh'''<sup>(2/4 if desired by speakers to improve the sound of the sentence)</sup>
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| |My a'''<nowiki/>'gh''' gwel/wel/kwel avorow.
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| ''I will see them tomorrow.''
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| |Emphatic pronoun
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| |'''hehynn''', '''ehynn''', '''hyhynn''', etc.
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| |Ny wra saw '''hehynn''' dos avorow.
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| ''Only <u>they</u> will come tomorrow''.
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| |Conjugated prepositions
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| |'''-m''' at the end of the masculine form
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| |My a wra mos '''dhodhom''' avorow.
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| ''I will go to them tomorrow.''
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| Ottoma lyver skrifys '''gansom'''.
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| ''Here is a book written by them.''
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| Ny aswonnav travyth '''anodhom'''.
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| ''I don't know anything about them.''
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| etc.
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| ==Dutch== | | ==Dutch== |