You can also work ninmu/nanmu or fetsi/nakni into the the description itself and not use a relative clause as gleki has done below.
See, the thing is, Lojban isn't like German and French and such. There's no grammatical "gender" in the usual sense. If you want to say something is male, *say* it's male. If you want to say it's female, *say* it's female. Same with number. In the example below, gleki's translations say "the *one* small-and-beautiful dancer" (that's what "pa" means.) Without "pa", it would almost surely be understood the same... unless the context made a plural understanding more likely. Number isn't marked, nor is gender... Nor is species, even. If you need to specify the dancer is human, you'll have to say so. (This isn't actually different than English, though. Anakin Skywalker and Senator Palpatine were watching Mon Cala "dancers" while they discussed the health-care benefits of the Dark Side.)
I think you won't find the kind of markers you're looking for in Lojban, unless your range is broader than I'm understanding.
~mark
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--Le mercredi 28 décembre 2022 à 16 h 28 min 49 s UTC+3, yanni...@gmail.com a écrit :
dear Lojban speakers,
I'm writing a book on Natural Language Processing, in which I frequently refer to Lojban.
At some point I'm comparing the number of morphological markers in various languages: I take the sentence “The beautiful little dancer” (meaning a female dancer) and I count the feminine-specific morphemes, for example in French: l*a* be*lle* petit*e* danseu*se* (four non-empty morphemes), in German d*ie* schöne kleine Tänzer*in* (two morphemes), etc.
In order to give a Lojban example, could you please provide me with the sentence translated into Lojban, twice: first meaning a male dancer and then meaning a female dancer (if there are any differences).
le pa cmalu je melbi dansu - the small-and-beautiful dancer
le pa cmalu je melbi dansu - the small-and-beautiful dancer
le pa cmalu je melbi dansu noi ninmu - the small-and-beautiful dancer which is a woman
le pa cmalu je melbi dansu noi nanmu - the small-and-beautiful dancer which is a man
You may also use fetsi and nakni for biological traits.
Thank you very much in advance,
Seasons' greetings
Yannis
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