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  2. Language and gender - Wikipedia

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    Research into the many possible relationships, intersections and tensions between language and gender is diverse. It crosses disciplinary boundaries, and, as a bare minimum, could be said to encompass work notionally housed within applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, cultural studies, feminist media studies, feminist psychology, gender studies, interactional ...

  3. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    The default assignment is the borrowing language's unmarked gender. Rarely, the word retains the gender it had in the donor language. This tends to happen more frequently in more formal language such as scientific terms, where some knowledge of the donor language can be expected. Sometimes the gender of a word switches with time.

  4. Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?

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    English does have some words that are associated with gender, but it does not have a true grammatical gender system. "English used to have grammatical gender. We started losing it as a language ...

  5. Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

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    A hendiadys is a phrase that contains two complementary words, and a gender-neutral hendiadys will include a feminine word and a masculine word, e.g. toutes et tous, citoyennes et citoyens. Within France, this gender-inclusive language has been met with some harsh resistance from the Académie Française and French conservatives.

  6. Gender role in language - Wikipedia

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    Other Eme-sal (language of women) to Eme-ku (language of men) phonemic correspondences are : [9] Eme-sal /m/, /b/, /d/ = Eme-ku /g/ Eme-sal /ê/ = Eme-ku /u/ {Cf. that for "the English sound system we have express statements by old grammarians that women had a more advanced pronunciation than men, and characteristically enough these statements ...

  7. Your Gender Identity Can Change Over Time, And Yes, That’s ...

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    "The language we have around [gender identity] is rapidly expanding to accommodate for the wide variety of gender identities and expressions out there," says Paula Leech, LMFT, an AASECT-certified ...

  8. List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

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    Many Australian languages have a system of gender superclassing in which membership in one gender can mean membership in another. [15] Worrorra: Masculine, feminine, terrestrial, celestial, and collective. [16] Halegannada: Originally had 9 gender pronouns but only 3 exist in present-day Kannada. Zande: Masculine, feminine, animate, and inanimate.

  9. Riley Gaines Act changes the word 'gender' to 'sex' in ... - AOL

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    However, the House bill goes further with the addition of language changes and fines. The change from " Riley Gaines Act changes the word 'gender' to 'sex' in state code