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==What genders to have?== | ==What genders to have?== | ||
About 50% of all languages don't have genders so it's certainly an option to skip it, the remaining 50% do and within these, 50% have a simple | About 50% of all languages don't have genders so it's certainly an option to skip it, the remaining 50% do and within these, 50% have a simple animate vs inanimate distinction, that is 25% of all languages. The remaining 25% have all the crazy fun. A key note is that while animate and inanimate are often very semantic it doesn't need to be as things can get promoted or demoted by analogy. Indo-European languages have the masculine, neuter and feminine distinction, which has fused in various ways over time in various languages. Other languages have many more of all kinds, you are quite free to have any gender system you feel like. | ||
==How do I assign the gender?== | ==How do I assign the gender?== | ||