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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Genderless languages
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:06:47 GMT
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In a previous article, dkakanov@midway.uchicago.edu (Dana Akanova) says:

>On Saturday John Davies <john@redwoods.demon.co.uk> wrote: >
>>
>>"English uses gender words like "man" for people, "she" for ship and the
>>masculine "he" for a person whose sex is unknown. Are there any
>>languages - primitive, modern, whatever - that don't apply gender to any
>>words other than those that clearly refer to males or females?"
>
>Turkic languages.  

Thanks for refreshing my memory as to the original question (see my 
immediately preceding posting).  But it's my understanding that Turkic 
languages don't have gender at all--that they don't differentiate he from 
she even when the referent *is sexed*--which is not the same thing at all 
as *having* gender (as English has) yet *not "mis"using it*.
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