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In article <2A7EFE7D.18189@noiro.acs.uci.edu> cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
>In article <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> Peter Marko <pmarko@bnr.ca> 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.
>
>From what I gather, Armenian also has only one gender-neutral third
>person sing. pronoun.  The woman I know who speaks it (natively -- she's
>Armenian herself) said that the fact that English has he and she
>mixed her up when she leanred it, and still does from time to time.
>
>Regards,
>Janis C.

Hebrew is even worse than English in this respect, we differ by gender
also in the first and second person. (There is no gender-specific first
person pronoun but there is seperate conjugations).

Hebrew and Arabic (and I guess other Semitic languages too) are very
gender-oriented and doesn't have the neuter gender at all (c.f It in 
English). This is probably because of the Patriachal societies in the
middle east in Ancient times (and even till today in some places like
Saudi Arabia).

David.

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