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Q: English uses gender words like “man” for people, “she” for ship and the
masculine “he” for a person whose sex is unknown. Are there any
languages—primitive, modern, whatever—that don’t apply gender to any
words other than those that clearly refer to males or females?
The question turns out to be several rolled into one.
1) Do all languages have pronouns like “he”, “she” and “it”?
2) Do all languages (or at least those that use “he”, “she” and “it”
pronouns) sometimes assign a gender to inanimate objects (such as a ship or
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3)…
