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    Posted: 09-Sep-2010 at 02:49
Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, so please be nice to me if I seem ignorant :)

However, I have a question about some languages because I am currently learning Spanish (just beginning).  I find it quite easy, especially the masculine and feminine words, I just got to learn the structure of the sentences better. I plan to learn more languages and preferrable languages that have masculine and feminine words.  So what are the other languages that have these type of words??
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All of the "Romance" languages seem to share this seperation! English still has reminants left within it also.

But, I am not an expert on languages, and I will have to leave it to one of our experts to tell you more.

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Yea I think all the romance languages do too but does French have masculine and feminine?? I don't think they do..
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"Le" and "la" come to mind!
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Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian have genders too, ...I would speculate that all Slavic languages have them, but I'm not sure, since I use only the ones I mentioned. Ancient Greek, Greek  and Latin have genders also. I find the lack of them in English very  constraining my expression, since gender diversifies the meanings one can put in one and the same word.
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Spanish has 'El' and 'Ella. French also differentiates between genders ie: le soleil, la lune, le jour, la

nuit (the sun, moon, night and day). German is somewhat funny because it actually has THREE

genders: masculine, feminine and neuter ie: der Mann (the man), die Frau (the woman) and das

Fussboden (the floor). I think Italian might also have gender separation. Some languages have

gender separation but not necessarily identified by an article that comes before the word. In Arabic

for example, every word is defined by 'Al' but it is the ending which can determine if the word is

masculine or feminine. So for example, in 'Al Mudarriss' المدرس and 'Al Mudarrissa' المدرسة (the teacher)

it is the 'a' ending which designates a female teacher. Some languages like English and Japanese

do not use any specific gender articles.
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All Indoeuropean languages have the same ancestor. Some of modern laguages has lost the category of gender (like English), some of them developed it even more (like Russian that has 3 genders (+neutral)). But if to look even deeper and to take into account all languages in the world the category of gender is developed there too and it (and some other factors as well) makes scientists think that there was the Common language.


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I already have spoken that,Universal one!Nobody listen.Inside were included consonant sounds only.Than
our ancestors made a little bit of combinatorics:vowels were connected for description of more object,events
and abstract meanings.Ape days connected with "human" days.Grammar existed also.Modified we still have
used them both.Cases were inside also as in modern Serbo Croatoan language.And signs were universal to
all users:they were in front of their eyes!Big smile
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