Most of Australia’s First Nations languages don’t have gendered pronouns. Here’s why (theconversation.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

because there's no reason for this sort of thing. some languages have noun classes. in some of those, the noun classes happen to somewhat line up with male/female.

this is some woo shit, attributing the lack of grammatical gender to some unique perspective. bullshit.

hungarian has no grammatical gender either, and hungary is exactly as sexist as every other european culture.

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