Re: Gender neutral pronouns

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From: Zunaid Kazi
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 21:44

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In article <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> pmarko@bnr.ca (Peter Marko) writes:
>>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.

Bengali, which is of the Indo-European Branch, also has gender neutral
pronoun. Snaskrit->Pali->Bengali.

I believe all North Indian languages have gender neutral pronouns.

>   ...Peter

-- Zunaid Kazi
   kazi@cis.udel.edu

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