Grammatical gender is present in many modern languages descended from Indo-European [wikipedia.org]. The original Indo-European had three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter). Some modern child languages (many Slavic ones for example), have retained all three, others have only kept two (most Romance languages, with the exception of Romanian and Asturian which kept the three genders of Latin), and others have lost even that. English in particular barely has any remains of grammatical gender, mainly in pronouns.
Huh, I wonder if the loss of the gendered words has led to the situation where the United States as a majority-English-speaking locale is trying to remove gender from everything?
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Gender is pervasive in Slavic languages
Grammatical gender is present in many modern languages descended from Indo-European [wikipedia.org]. The original Indo-European had three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter). Some modern child languages (many Slavic ones for example), have retained all three, others have only kept two (most Romance languages, with the exception of Romanian and Asturian which kept the three genders of Latin), and others have lost even that. English in particular barely has any remains of grammatical gender, mainly in pronouns.
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