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  2. List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

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    Many Australian languages have a system of gender superclassing in which membership in one gender can mean membership in another. [15] Worrorra: Masculine, feminine, terrestrial, celestial, and collective. [16] Halegannada: Originally had 9 gender pronouns but only 3 exist in present-day Kannada. Zande: Masculine, feminine, animate, and inanimate.

  3. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical gender is found in many Indo-European languages (including Spanish, French, Russian, and German—but not English, Bengali, Armenian or Persian, for example), Afroasiatic languages (which includes the Semitic and Berber languages, etc.), and in other language families such as Dravidian and Northeast Caucasian, as well as several ...

  4. Genderless language - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Basque language is considered a genderless language, but it has been influenced by the Spanish feminine-masculine two-gender system. Additionally, there are approximately 7,000 languages in the world, [5] thus a sample of 256 languages constitutes roughly 3.7% of all spoken languages. Thus, although this particular survey ...

  5. Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?

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    Jennifer Dorman is the head of User Insights at Babel. "Grammatical gender is a classification system for nouns," said Dorman. Today Dorman says 44% of languages have grammatical gender systems ...

  6. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.

  7. Gender - Wikipedia

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    A sample of the World Atlas of Language Structures by Greville G Corbett found that fewer than half of the 258 languages sampled have any system of grammatical gender. [170] Of the remaining languages that feature grammatical gender, over half have more than the minimum requirement of two genders. [170]

  8. Lists of languages - Wikipedia

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    SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639. List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages) List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter codes

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