• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter

    Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system

    Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period

    Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction