• TechLich@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    True! It’s not just a Latin thing and Slavic languages have it too. I wonder where it came from originally. Probably one of those Proto Indo European things. Though it’s in some Indigenous Australian languages too (though not all) so might be even older?

    • Hegar@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      I think grammatical gender is just a feature of languages across many different families.