I understand that not all languages have gendered pronouns, but am curious if Hexbear's pronoun tags could be repurposed for other gender-equity uses in any other languages
For example, maybe some communities list different word suffixes or just list their gender explicitly?
grammatical gender can get really weird once you're at categories for non-human stuff. Most indo-european languages stick to one gender for all inanimate objects, but there's languages with different genders for animals, plants, tools, even for differentiating between wild and domesticated animals and stuff like that. if you hear "that language has 7 genders", it doesn't necessarily mean they have any grammatical gender for nonbinary folx. it may just be that a chair uses different suffixes than a corncob.
German certainly doesn't, neither does French AFAIK. Some things are just randomly male or female
they both started from a system that assigned grammatical categories based on animacy, added a category to split male and female, and usually dropped the inanimate category (or started calling it neuter). why this happened has never made any sense to me.
yeah, they don't apply these genders consistently at all to further complicate things.
Cree splits it into animate and inanimate, which makes way more sense to me. Although it isn't clear cut, lol, while all people and animals are animate some stuff is considered also to be animate like feathers. Just gotta memorize which is which.
Yeah most of them. Except every romance language and every germanic language.