| From: | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 4, 2000, 3:42 |
As a datapoint I can point out a natlang with no trace of grammatical
gender whatsoever in its nouns or pronouns: Finnish. There are *no*
articles and only two 3rd person singular pronouns: 'hän' (used for
males and females) and 'se' (animals and inanimates). Sadly enough
I don't know enough about other Fenno-Ugrian languages like Estonian
and Hungarian, but I have a very strong hunch that they are similar
in this regard.
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