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Use of gender-neutral words at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Gender-neutral language in Portuguese is a recent strand of demands for greater gender equality and social inclusion between men, women and non-binary individuals. It can be divided into inclusive or non-sexist language, and non-binary or neuter language or neolanguage ...
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.
Pama–Nyungan languages including Dyirbal and other Australian languages have gender systems such as: Masculine, feminine (see Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things), vegetable and neuter. [13] [14] Many Australian languages have a system of gender superclassing in which membership in one gender can mean membership in another. [15]
Example of gender-neutral masculine: English (5) a. If anybody comes, tell him. masculine him used to refer to a person of unknown sex b. *If anybody comes, tell her. feminine her is not used to refer to a person of unknown sex Example of collective masculine: French (6) a. Vos amis sont arrivés — Ils étaient en avance.
"Grammatical gender is a classification system for nouns," said Dorman. Today Dorman says 44% of languages have grammatical gender systems, which can help ease communication for people speaking ...
Google last updated its internal style guide in 2020, . but the newest changes will provide non-gendered alternatives to "generic masculine" language... as well as stylistic suggestions that will ...
The toppling of Roe v. Wade has catalyzed a heated debate among some abortion rights supporters over whether gender-neutral language — like “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women ...
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. [50]