Tauro-Piscean language

Nouns

Genders

The Piscean language includes three 'logical' grammatical genders. While in many languages, the genders do not often relate to physical properties of nouns, they do in Piscean; therefore, most nouns are neuter, while creatures of the male sex are masculine and creatures of female sex are feminine. If one refers to a creature, but does not wish to distinguish sex, the neuter gender can be used as a substitute. Observe the following examples:

• tet Sunnê - the sun (no sex, so neuter)
• tet Mann - the person (no sex specified, so neuter)
• sê Mann - the man (male, so masculine)
• seo Mann - the woman (female, so feminine)

The above example shows the importance the article plays in Piscean of distinguishing between sexes in a language where one noun fits all.

Singular and Plural

There are several ways to form plural nouns in Tauro-Piscean: 1. Bok > Bokê (add –ê to nouns that end in a consonant) 2. Äto > Ätos (add –s to nouns that end in a vowel other than ê) 3. Sunnê > Sunnên (add –n to nouns that end in ê)