Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

On Jun 13, 2:04 am, Suaprazz...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Does anyone know any other Indo-European languages that have lost it's
gramatical gender besides English?

I know about Persian and Bengali are Indo-European and they both lost
gramatical gender in their languages. How does a language loose it's
gramatical gender? Is there any traces of it left in English?

A language loses its grammatical gender when the functions performed
by gender-distinction are assumed by other grammatical devices.

In SPELLING English, we sometimes distinguish blond/blonde, brunet/
brunette, but that's highly incidental.

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