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| gizmo2012 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5094 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French | Message 1 of 23 07 January 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I was just thinking, how many languages are there which do not have masculine, feminine or neuter nouns, like English? Also, if there are any, what are they. Why does English have no genders for nouns? Thanks James 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| indiana83 Groupie United States ipracticecanto.wordp Joined 5490 days ago 92 posts - 121 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese, Italian | Message 2 of 23 07 January 2011 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
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Chinese has no gendered nouns.
You can even use the same pronoun to represent both he and she, though there is a more specific character for when needed: 他 - he/she 她 - she 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sjheiss Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5684 days ago 100 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, Basque | Message 3 of 23 07 January 2011 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
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Here is a big list of some. :)
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| gizmo2012 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5094 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French | Message 4 of 23 07 January 2011 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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Wow! That's a lot more than I first thought!It's interesting that in Chinese you can use the same pronoun for he and she.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 23 07 January 2011 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
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Turkish nouns have absolutely no genders. The nouns have no articles and he / she / it for example means "o" in Turkish. Like in English you learn Turkish nouns without the article. To give some examples:
masa - table kadin - woman erkek, adam - man sekreter - secretary ev - house araba - car Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 07 January 2011 at 8:50pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 23 07 January 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
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You are refering to grammatical gender. English doesn't have it because it lost it down the road; other Germanic languages still do.
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| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5585 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 8 of 23 07 January 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
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please follow this amazing link http://wals.info/feature/31?tg_format=map
There you have a world map with the location of languages colored accordingly to the fact of having sex-based genders, non-sex-based gender or being genderless. There's is also a plethora of other languages features you can select 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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