• SolOrion
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    Are there languages with more than 2 genders? That sounds interesting.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      In Europe without even anything exotic - German, archaic Dutch and all insular Scandinavian languages, and all Slavic languages. I don’t know Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, so I can’t talk about them, a plethora of cases, but genders - I don’t remember.

      The interesting thing to learn is that there are languages with more than 3 genders (M, F and thing). Or even more than 4 (M, F, N and thing), with additional genders being for kinds of animals, fish, plants, buildings, instruments. But I’ve only heard about that, haven’t studied any such language.

      • SolOrion
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 months ago

        I was right! It was interesting. Thanks for the reply.