Talk:List of languages by type of grammatical genders

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"Reciprocal gender" in Russian?[edit]

What's this? There's no mention of it on Russian grammar, which cites Russian as having three genders. Nor does Google point to any evidence of the "reciprocal gender" in Russian. --82.33.206.170 (talk) 15:30, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All nouns [in English] are female...?[edit]

Would be interested in any available clarification here: >>> English (Indo-European; English has gendered pronouns, but only one grammatical gender in the sense of noun classes (All nouns are female)) <<< Not familiar with all English nouns being female. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhino1515 (talk • contribs) 03:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Genders in Konkani?[edit]

In the grammar section of the Konkani Language, sub-section “Konkani Apabhramsha and Metathesis”, it indicates there are three genders in Konkani, not zero as in this article. I think the only existing Indo-European languages lacking gender classes for nouns are Afrikaans, Armenian, Bengali, English, and Persian.

Maybe a table format would be better here? Then it would be possible to sort based on language family, etc. 50.225.95.66 (talk) 18:40, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Basque[edit]

How come Basque is in both the "no gender" list and in one of the gender lists? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.226.11.64 (talk) 00:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

English does have gender[edit]

See actor (male) and actress (female) for example as well as the wikipeida article Gender in English Abote2 (talk) 18:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

”Actor/actress” is a distinction of natural gender, while this article is about grammatical gender. Loraof (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's right, but it would be nice to have a set of lists somewhere in Wikipedia of languages in which the gender/sex of a person is or isn't expressed by normal utterances using high-frequency vocabulary (or some such formulation). So English would be "gendered" in that sense, and Finnish wouldn't be. If there is already such a list somewhere, someone please link to it. Lingvano (talk) 10:39, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistencies and errors[edit]

Some languages, like Kannada, Gujarati, Filipino and Dutch, are included in two categories. Also it says that Middle Korean and Filipino have grammatical gender, which is not true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.6.241.62 (talk) 02:24, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kannada[edit]

Kannada is listed twice still, as mentioned above, and not once in the three genders list where I would argue it belongs. There's a case to be made that there's a distinction between animacy since pretty much all nouns not referring to people are neuter but that's still different from "no gender". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.22.132.194 (talk) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]