enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type...

    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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

    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. Lists of languages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages

    by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.

  5. Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?

    www.aol.com/why-languages-gendered-words...

    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. Genderless language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderless_language

    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 ...

  7. Languages of the world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_world

    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Wikipedia has several articles cataloging the languages of the world in different ways:

  8. Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in...

    Other languages, including most Austronesian languages, lack gender distinctions in personal pronouns entirely, as well as any system of grammatical gender. [1] In languages with pronominal gender, problems of usage may arise in contexts where a person of unspecified or unknown social gender is being referred to but commonly available pronouns ...

  9. List of official languages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages

    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used