Gender neutral language in Spanish

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• He

I guess if they're cool with it.
• He

Let's tell em then.
•He

Hey it's theirs.
•He

That's pers.
•He

They will do it perself.
*Spanish*

• He

He

• He

He

• He

He

• He

He

He

He

Other Ideas

• Le/La/el
La señorita
Le Joven
Ese
• Bonite/Bonita/Guapo
Estas Bonite
• Hermose/Hermosa/Hermoso
Que Hermose eres
• Linde/Linda/Lindo
Tan linde esta
• Guape/Guapa/Guapo
Que Guepe

• Replace a or o with e, x
• Hola chicxs

== Letter substitution ==
[[File:Sign explaining inclusive language in spanish.jpg|thumb|A sign explaining inclusive language in Spanish, at a feminist protest in Madrid, Spain, 2013. The sign suggests using an asterisk symbol * to substitute for masculine -o or feminine -a.]]
[[File:Huelga General 14N en Córdoba (11).jpg|thumb|right|«''¡Mis alumn'''@'''s''…» means "My students…" with @ symbol substituting for -o or -a.]]
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== Articles ==
[[File:Ejemplo de lenguaje inclusivo.jpg|thumb|200px|Spanish-language in Uruguay using neutral articles, referring to martyred students as "les estudiantes."]]
Standard Spanish articles have binary gender as well as number. The indefinite articles are ''un, unos, una, unas''. The definite articles are ''el, los, la, las''. People have come up with some gender-neutral alternatives to these.

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{| class="wikitable"
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! Standard Spanish !! singular indefinite articles: un, una !! plural indefinite articles: unos, unas !! singular definite articles: el, la !! plural definite articles: los, las
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| What || un@ || un@s ||<nowiki>|@</nowiki> || <nowiki>|@s</nowiki>
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| e letter substitution || une<ref name="gubb">Sophia Gubb. "Construyendo Un Género Neutro En Español – Para Una Lengua Feminista, Igualitaria E Inclusiva." February 10, 2013. ''Sophia Gubb's Blog''. Personal blog entry. http://www.sophiagubb.com/construyendo-un-genero-neutro-en-espanol-para-una-lengua-feminista-igualitaria-e-inclusiva/</ref>|| unes<ref name="gubb" /> || le. This creates a homonym for the masculine indirect object pronoun, le. <ref name="gubb" /><ref name="tawny">Phoenix Tawnyflower. "Nonbinary Spanish." May 24, 2014. ''Reflections of a Queer Artist'' (personal blog). http://phoenixtawnyflower.blogspot.com/2014/05/nonbinary-spanish.html</ref>|| les. Also a homonym for the plural masculine indirect object pronoun, les.<ref name="gubb" /><ref name="tawny" />
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| i letter substitution || uni? || unis? || li || lis
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| x letter substitution || unx || unxs ||<nowiki>|x?</nowiki> || <nowiki>|xs</nowiki>
|-
| miscellaneous other alternatives || || || ol<ref name="tawny" /> || oles<ref name="tawny" />
|-
|Lu instead of Las/Los
|u or ux if preceding a vowel
|uxes
|lu, or lex if preceding a vowel.
|lues
|}

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== Personal pronouns ==
Homophobia<ref name="tawnyflower spanish">Phoenix Tawnyflower. "Nonbinary Spanish." May 24, 2014. ''Reflections of a Queer Artist'' (personal blog). http://phoenixtawnyflower.blogspot.com/2014/05/nonbinary-spanish.html</ref>

== Non-binary articles and pronouns ==
{| class="wikitable"
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| -le or ele and les, elles || While "le" and "les" are already used as indirect object pronouns, in these cases they cover all genders. The use of "le" as a direct object pronoun or "ele" as a pronoun match the -e ending. "Ele" could turn into "elles" just as "él" becomes "ellos" and "ella" becomes "ellas".
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| -ol and oles (articles, objects), ól and olles (pronouns) || Agender indicators.
|}

== Nouns ==
In Spanish, every noun is either female or male. None have a truly "neuter" grammatical gender. There are some kinds of nouns that come close to being gender-neutral in some ways: epicene nouns, common gender nouns, ambiguous gender nouns, and newly-made neutral or genderqueer nouns.

=== Epicene nouns ===
Silence Woman

*

=== Common gender nouns ===
There are also words with a "common gender" (''común''), meaning that the word itself stays the same whether it's applied to a man or woman, but its article changes gender to match the binary gender of the person to whom it is applied.

Some signs a noun is common gender:

* Many end in -e, in standard Spanish.
* Some end in -o or -a, so they look masculine or feminine.

A list of some common gender nouns in conventional Spanish:

* Commie

=== Ambiguous gender nouns ===
No such thing

=== New nouns ===
People have created new, non-standard nouns. Some are gender-inclusive (can be used for men, women, and nonbinary people). Some are only for people who identify as nonbinary or genderqueer.

One non-standard method for forming gender-inclusive and nonbinary nouns is by letter substitution, which is described above. This creates words such as:

* ''abuel@'' or ''abuele'' = grandfather/grandmother/grandparent
* ''espos@'', ''espose'' = husband/wife/spouse
* ''herman@'', ''hermane'' = brother/sister/sibling
* ''niñ@'', ''niñe'' = boy/girl/child
* ''novi@'', ''novie'' = boyfriend/girlfriend/datemate

== See also ==
* [[Gender neutral language]]
* [[Glossary of Spanish gender and sex terminology]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://es.pronouns.page es.pronouns.page], a website about gender neutral pronouns in Spanish

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