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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by cmrdporcupine on Monday December 13, 2021 @08:55AM (#29539573)
Interesting fact is that very early Indo-European likely didn't have grammatical gender. The (extinct) Anatolian languages (Hittite, Luwian) split off before Indo-European really gelled, and they didn't have gender but instead a system of animate/inanimate.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by jhgb on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:01AM (#29566825)
> and they didn't have gender but instead a system of animate/inanimate

But...that's gender, linguistically speaking.

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by cmrdporcupine on Saturday December 18, 2021 @08:13PM (#29610430)
Yes, it's gender, technically -- not but not in the way other Indo-European languages practice it.
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