• BluesF@feddit.uk
    5·
    1 year ago

    In gendered languages the “gender” of things other than people doesn’t really relate to human gender at all. It’s just a grammatical construct.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mostly yes, but a few gendered languages (Wikipedia lists the Yeniseian and most Dravidian languages, Dizi and Zande) use strict semantic criteria, so that the grammatical gender does correlate strictly with the actual gender 99% of the time.