Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

On 13 kesä, 09:04, Suaprazz...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Does anyone know any other Indo-European languages that have lost it's
gramatical gender besides English?

Armenian is one example, Persian you already mentioned. As regards
Swedish, it has kept the neuter gender, but almost entirely lost the
distinction between masculine and feminine, fusing them into one
"real" gender, as it is called.

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