ext_15486 ([identity profile] stoutfellow.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] stoutfellow 2005-11-04 11:07 am (UTC)

It's actually a fairly common classification scheme, especially in the languages of North America. (Some linguists believe the Indo-European M/F/N system originated as animate/inanimate - MF vs. N - and the M/F split developed later.)
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