Baby refered to as Gxi
ca, kivuye
Ubutumwa 13
ururimi: English
vikungen (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 31 Nyandagaro 2015 15:46:41
Alkanadi:Can you refer to a baby as Gxi?No problem doing this, both a baby, your pet or any other person or animal when gender is not known or not relevant.
Ĝi does not line up with English it.
rikforto (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 31 Nyandagaro 2015 15:58:09
There are some languages with grammatical gender that use the "it" equivalent for babies and animals---and until recently, English was one of them. It is a bit jarring in translation, but that is one of the pitfall of reasoning that way.
Tempodivalse (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 31 Nyandagaro 2015 17:24:39
Alkanadi:Really? I hear it used all the time in reference to infants and small children. It seems quite normal to my ear ...Tempodivalse:It's fine to use ghi with infants - don't you do this in English too.Very rarely. It isn't respectful in our culture. Normally, if we don't know the sex, we say "the baby" or "her/his baby".