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Some Spanish-speaking people advocate for the use of the pronouns elle (singular) and elles (plural). [14] Spanish often uses -a and -o for gender agreement in adjectives corresponding with feminine and masculine nouns, respectively; in order to agree with a gender neutral or non-binary noun, it is suggested to use the suffix -e.
Some early proposals for gender neutrality in Spanish have included extending the use of the gender-neutral -es ending for plural nouns, so that mis hijos ("my children") becomes mis hijes if they are of more than one gender, or non-binary). [3] On the contrary, some proposals related to grammatical gender may seem to interfere with neutrality.
Languages with grammatical gender, such as French, German, Greek, and Spanish, present unique challenges when it comes to creating gender-neutral language.Unlike genderless languages like English, constructing a gender-neutral sentence can be difficult or impossible in these languages due to the use of gendered nouns and pronouns.
Ivon Garcia, 26, grew up two exits from the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego. Garcia was so steeped in Mexican-American culture and Spanish that Garcia “didn’t really conceptualize someone not ...
The Zapotec word muxe is thought to derive from the Spanish word for "woman", mujer. [3] In the 16th-century, the letter x had a sound similar to "sh" (see History of the Spanish language § Modern development of the Old Spanish sibilants). The word muxe is a gender-neutral term, among the many other words in the language of the Zapotec. Unlike ...
Attempts have been made to introduce gender-neutral language into Spanish and Portuguese by changing the ending of Latino, as in the terms Latin@, Latine, [22] Latino/a, [47] and Latinx. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Both supporters and opponents of Latinx have cited linguistic imperialism as a reason for supporting or opposing the use of the term.
In Spanish, that a word ends in z does not say anything about its grammatical gender. A proof of this is that there are many words ending in z that are masculine: ajedrez , avestruz (almost all animals are male, when the species is mentioned), barniz , diez (all the number are masculine), disfraz and many more.
El Tiempo Latino a Spanish-language free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. Latina, a magazine for bilingual, bicultural Hispanic women; People en Español, a Spanish-language magazine counterpart of People; Vida Latina, a Spanish-language entertainment magazine distributed throughout the Southern United States