Gender-specific Pronoun - Other Languages With Gender-specific Pronouns

Other Languages With Gender-specific Pronouns

In these languages some personal pronouns are specific as to gender. Though this usually does not apply to all personal pronouns in the language, a speaker usually does not (at least traditionally) have an option of whether to use gender-inclusive pronouns, since the gender-specific ones do not have inclusive alternatives.

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