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Erika2rsis ( @Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•10 months agoWith Chinese the situation is well that in spoken language, the pronouns aren’t gendered, but in written language, they are. This was as a European influence, I believe.
All of these are third-person pronouns read as “tā” in Standard Chinese:
- 他 - masculine, originally/occasionally gender-neutral human; human radical
- 她 - feminine; woman radical
- 牠 - animate non-human, Traditional usage; cow radical
- 它 - inanimate; animate non-human in Simplified usage; historically general
- 祂 - divine, primarily Abrahamic usage; spirit radical
- TA - gender-neutral, also used in other letter case forms
- X也 - gender-neutral, handwritten form has no Unicode support
zhiril ( @zhiril@sopuli.xyz ) 4•10 months agoIn Finnish there are hän (he/she) and se (it). In spoken Finnish people often use only se-pronoun even when talking about people.
petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 1•10 months ago@WtfEvenIsExistence In Romanian we use “coaie”. It’s the most gender inclusive pronoun ❤ ❤
(Edit: linked to urban dictionary for context)