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there’s this post going around that’s like ‘what if alien languages had pronouns that didn’t include gender information!’ and there’s about five different enthusiastic replies and like, i get the excitement but i’m begging you to learn about languages other than english

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An incomplete list of languages that don’t have gendered pronouns (based on what people mentioned in the notes/tags:

Mandarin Chinese (spoken)

Cantonese

Japanese (they exist but are rarely used)

Korean

Indonesian

Malay

Tagalog

Swahili

Xhosa

Farsi

Turkish

Armenian

Finnish

Hungarian

Estonian

Sámegiella (& most other Sami languages)

Yaqui

ASL

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Let’s be real here, English is highly unusual among languages in having grammatical gender align so precisely with the social concept of gender. In many other languages, not only do you get “masculine” or “feminine” inanimate objects, but you also get words that are gendered socially that don’t take the grammatical gender you expect. German Mädchen “girl” is neutral. Latin virtus “manliness” is feminine.

KiSwahili and isiXhosa arguably do have grammatical genders—more than a dozen of them. None of them have anything to do with the social concept of gender. In the Dyirbal language of Australia, there are four genders: “masculine” (which includes most animals), “feminine” (which includes fire, water, and violence), fruit, and miscellaneous.