Gender neutral language: Difference between revisions
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* most countries, rivers and languages are feminine. | * most countries, rivers and languages are feminine. | ||
(it could be argued since -eacht and -acht occur as both feminine and masculine nouns that there is some gender ambiguity/neutralized gender, and perhaps these could be neuter endings for nouns) | (it could be argued since -eacht and -acht occur as both feminine and masculine nouns that there is some gender ambiguity/neutralized gender, and perhaps these could be neuter endings for nouns). For a traditionalist approach, it's important to recognize that grammatical gender is not the same as actual gender of the noun and can be categorical at times (ex. Paiste and Duine are both behave grammatically as masculine nouns but do not strictly mean a "male child" or "male person" and are basically neutral concepts). | ||
===Pronouns=== | ===Pronouns=== | ||