In what sense? If anything, the very concept of “everything is gendered” makes it sit at one extreme of the spectrum of languages, in the very literal sense of the word, wouldn’t you agree?
In what sense? If anything, the very concept of “everything is gendered” makes it sit at one extreme of the spectrum of languages, in the very literal sense of the word, wouldn’t you agree?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It has only genders, and they don’t affect verb inflections.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Are there languages with more than 2 genders? That sounds interesting.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
In Europe without even anything exotic - German, archaic Dutch and all insular Scandinavian languages, and all Slavic languages. I don’t know Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, so I can’t talk about them, a plethora of cases, but genders - I don’t remember.
The interesting thing to learn is that there are languages with more than 3 genders (M, F and thing). Or even more than 4 (M, F, N and thing), with additional genders being for kinds of animals, fish, plants, buildings, instruments. But I’ve only heard about that, haven’t studied any such language.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I was right! It was interesting. Thanks for the reply.