4 points
But inanimate objects? I remember hearing a story about a Russian (Soviet) machine that is a “He”, not a ship “Her”
I guess we humans do tend to personify stuff
9 points
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The base language for all of those is proto-indo-european, which was gendered. Finno-urgic and turkic families are not, for example. The mother tongue for Germanic, Slavic, and Romantic languages originally gendered both nouns and adjectives. Persian, which shares those roots, not only got rid of that but also gendered pronouns.
3 points
