The base language for all of those is proto-indo-european, which was gendered. Finno-urgic and turkic families are not, for example. The mother tongue for Germanic, Slavic, and Romantic languages originally gendered both nouns and adjectives. Persian, which shares those roots, not only got rid of that but also gendered pronouns.
Persian is one of the indo-european languages that dropped gender completely. They’re the real bosses. (Sorry, I’m an absolute non-francophone).
Interesting, It’s very hard to imagine a world without gender. A story without man and woman, would a crazy challenge :D
But inanimate objects? I remember hearing a story about a Russian (Soviet) machine that is a “He”, not a ship “Her”
I guess we humans do tend to personify stuff
The base language for all of those is proto-indo-european, which was gendered. Finno-urgic and turkic families are not, for example. The mother tongue for Germanic, Slavic, and Romantic languages originally gendered both nouns and adjectives. Persian, which shares those roots, not only got rid of that but also gendered pronouns.
Yeah always, we create talking stones and trees 😁
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