Datapoint North-Central Dargwa/Is there a gender/noun class system where sex is a factor in class assignment?

Language or dialect:

North-Central Dargwa

Feature:

Is there a gender/noun class system where sex is a factor in class assignment?

Coding:

present (Abdullaev 1954: 72-73; Isaev 2004: 314-315)

Comment:

Nouns denoting males belong to the class I, females to the class II, other animate and in inanimate nouns to the class III.