Genderless language

Genderless language

A genderless language is a natural or constructed human language that has no category of grammatical gender. Some linguists use the term "noun class" to be a broader categorization which includes the categorization by gender as a special case.Yasir Suleiman (ed.) (1999) "Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa", ISBN 0700710787, Chapter 10: "Gender in a genderless language: The case of Turkish", by Friederike Braun ]

The notion of "genderless language" must not be confused with that of gender-neutral language. Also, a discourse in a genderless language in not necessarily gender-neutral, although genderless languages exclude many possibilities to gender-related stereotypes, such as using masculine pronouns when referring to persons by their occupations.

Genderless languages do have various means to recognize gender, such as gender-specific words, ("mother", "son", etc.), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.

Genderless languages are listed in .

ee also

*Gender-neutrality in genderless languages

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