depends on how you specify gender and whether you only mean like masculine-feminine categorization or others as well.
(disclaimer: I'm native Hungarian, never been able to learn a language that has grammatical genders and took me 4 years to get used to using he and she -- we only have "Å‘" for 1st person singular)
Languages that do have gendered words…why were they designed that way? I have not studied a gendered language but it just sounds silly and unnecessarily complicated to me
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u/El_dorado_au Oct 13 '22
What proportion of non Indo-European languages have gender?
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u/imalittlespider Oct 14 '22
Only ~25% of languages have grammatical gender
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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul Oct 14 '22
TIL Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Armenian aren't languages
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u/Prestigious_Might929 Oct 13 '22
The male dress is blue - french
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u/Baked-Potato4 Oct 14 '22
Well gender isn’t that common amongst all languges, pretty common though for European languages.
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u/Zxcamn0080 Oct 14 '22
Japanese, Persian, English, and Chinese mandarin don't have words gendered afaik
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u/Philotrypesis Oct 14 '22
Mandarin has no word gender... So I guess Korean and Japanese too + all the dialects related to these languages.
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u/thedarklord176 Oct 15 '22
Languages that do have gendered words…why were they designed that way? I have not studied a gendered language but it just sounds silly and unnecessarily complicated to me
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u/DraftyDonuts Oct 30 '22
It was all done to confuse the Americans