Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

<Suaprazzodi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

Afrikaans.

The Romance and Baltic languages have lost the neuter.
Various Germanic languages have or are in the process of merging
masculine and feminine into a common gender.

How does a language loose it's gramatical gender?

In English and Afrikaans it seems to have been part of a general
loss of inflection.

Is there any traces of it left in English?

The different third-person singular pronouns, which have been
reassigned to express semantic gender.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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