Wikidata talk:Wikidata Lexeme Forms/Dagbani

Initial discussion

(cross-linking) some initial discussion of Dagbani support is happening at Topic:Wd81848qqx9w1nhz. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 11:26, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Dagbani template(s) for nouns

@Masssly, Dnshitobu, Musahfm, Abubakari Khadijah, Munkaila Sulemana, Achiri Bitamsimli: I saw some of you were involved creating lexemes and Shahadusadik asked for help to create a template for Dagbani. I wrote those drafts for nouns in WLF/Dagbani based on what I found in the lexemes that some of you created. I don't speak Dagbani, so I really need some help from native speakers. I already know the nouns have forms for singular and plural. But one thing is still unclear to me: Does Dagbani really mark their nouns as animate and inanimate? And what about grammatical genders? If so, how many of them? I found some lexemes featuring these categories (e.g. bua (L7356), sɔŋ (L620259) and kuli (L307875)) and some without them. So I'm not sure if these statements are really necessary for the lexemes. Tony Naden's and Roger Blench's dictionaries show nothing about it in their entries. This online dictionary don't feature it in their entries, either. Can you guys help me with this? Thank you in advance for your attention. Enaldodiscussão 02:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

@EnaldoSS: , Dagbani mark nouns as animate inanimate

Yes, there are grammatical gender in Dagbani; masculine, feminine and neuter. Thanks Musahfm (talk) 19:58, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

CC @Shahadusadik: the ping in the original message didn’t work Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:31, 4 June 2022 (UTC)