Grammatical features / gender power & prefix derivation

[Mark Davis ☕️]

That is useful info. We currently have the long form (kilogram) and the
abbreviation (kg) in different languages. So the most useful information
would be cases of languages where those two have different genders. Or
where the prefixed form has a different gender than the " base form ", such
as kilogram and gram.

We currently have a limited number of languages with the grammatical data,
as you can see from the chart linked from the 39 release page. We're going
to be gearing up to add more languages in the next release so this kind of
information will be useful as we prepare for that release.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 21:54 Richard Wordingham via CLDR-Users <
cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:50:35 +0800
> Kip Cole via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> > If my understanding is correct, then looking at the Section 16.1:
> > <deriveCompound feature="gender" structure="power" value="0"/> <!--
> > gender(square-meter) ←  gender(meter) --> <deriveCompound
> > feature="gender" structure="prefix" value="0"/> <!--
> > gender(kilometer) ←  gender(meter)--> Is there any circumstance
> > whereby “value” could be anything other than “0” ? Is there any
> > circumstance where the power or prefix themselves would form part of
> > the gender determination? (Based on the above I assume not, but
> > confirmation would be helpful).  Looking at the locales for “root”,
> > “de” and “fr”, all of them have “value=0” for “power” and “prefix”.
>
> I'm not sure that it's relevant, but the suppletive form _kilo_ for
> _kilogram_ often has a different gender to the longer form, e.g. neuter
> rather than masculine in Slavonic languages, or optionally ki/vi class
> in Swahili as opposed to 'n' class.  (Mark Rosenfelder found me the
> Slavonic case.)
>
> Richard.
>
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