Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

From: Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:12:10 -0400

Suaprazzodi@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Does anyone know any other Indo-European languages that have lost it's
gramatical gender besides English?

Afrikaans. The third person pronouns (hy, sy, dit, and related forms) still reflect the distinction based on the actual sex of the referent, if any, but grammatical gender is gone.
.

References:
- Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss
  - From: Suaprazzodi

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