Re: Gender neutral pronouns

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From: Peter Marko
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:35

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>In article <EUGENE.92Jul25231756@ra.cs.umb.edu> eugene@cs.umb.edu
(Eugene 
>O'Neil) writes:
>
>I think it's a bummer that English (and most languages) lack a
>gender neutral singular pronoun.  (Finnish has one!)  I don't know

Hungarian, a distant relative of Finnish, has only one singular pronoun
(it is gender-neutral, of course).  Both languages belong to the
Finno-Ugric group (but to different branches).

I wonder if there are other languages with gender-neutral pronouns.

   ...Peter

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