Sanskrit is an Indo-European language. They are all descended from a most recent common ancestor called Proto-Indo-European, which is thought to have been spoken in the late Neolithic by nomadic horse peoples of the Pontic-Caspian steppes (ie. southern Ukraine and Russia north of the Caucuses). The Romance languages, Slavic languages, Germanic languages, non-Dravidian Indic languages, Persian and many isolates all trace back to this common ancestor.
Research indicates that the earliest stages of Proto-Indo-European had two genders (animate and inanimate), as did Hittite, the earliest attested Indo-European language. The classification of nouns based on animacy and inanimacy and the lack of gender are today characteristic of Armenian. According to the theory, the animate gender, which (unlike the inanimate) had independent vocative and accusative forms, later split into masculine and feminine, thus originating the three-way classification into masculine, feminine and neuter.
Many Indo-European languages retained the three genders, including most Slavic languages, Latin, Sanskrit, Ancient and Modern Greek, German, Icelandic, Romanian and Asturian (two Romance language exceptions). In them, there is a high but not absolute correlation between grammatical gender and declensional class. Many linguists believe that to be true of the middle and late stages of Proto-Indo-European.
Maybe but imo honorifics and phrase endings barely count. There is nothing really stopping a man from e.g saying -wa ending except the cultural norms. Things like -chan can be applied to children of both sexes too.
A girl saying "boku" or calling a boy -chan are not grammatically wrong like calling a cis man a she in English.
I don't disagree in principle. But if we are talking specificaly about Japanese honorifics they are not just about seniority, it is culturally expected to add -san to any person you talk to, even friends, the only exception is close family. Age is not strictly related here. Dropping suffix is regarded as being extremely intimate.
Calling people -sama is strictly anime shit you never hear that IRL.
In German, i sometimes do just that and use the feminine gender as the grammatical default. It triggers the chuds like crazy, as German traditionally defaults to the masculine gender when it's not specified and the boomers always go "well, women are obviously included in that bEcAuSe iT's oNlY gRaMmAtiCaL gEnDeR".
But usually i prefer the : to attach the feminine suffix (the : is a placeholder and signifies that enbies are also included). So instead of saying "poster" to refer to someone who posts a lot, i'd write "Poster:in". This (or variants where you use the * instead of :) is a common way to make German gender inclusive in leftist and radlib circles and ofc also triggers the chuds. You can trigger them even more by pronouncing the : or * as a glottal stop. It's a huge culture war issue over here, and opposing it is tied more and more into mysogyny, transphobia and enbiephobia.
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Sanskrit is also gendered it probably goes back further than Europe and Latin
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language. They are all descended from a most recent common ancestor called Proto-Indo-European, which is thought to have been spoken in the late Neolithic by nomadic horse peoples of the Pontic-Caspian steppes (ie. southern Ukraine and Russia north of the Caucuses). The Romance languages, Slavic languages, Germanic languages, non-Dravidian Indic languages, Persian and many isolates all trace back to this common ancestor.
As for the evolution of grammatical gender within this family :
Interesting!
Colonialism
Capitalism
Latin based languages
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Hey Japan has gendered language too!
Maybe but imo honorifics and phrase endings barely count. There is nothing really stopping a man from e.g saying -wa ending except the cultural norms. Things like -chan can be applied to children of both sexes too.
A girl saying "boku" or calling a boy -chan are not grammatically wrong like calling a cis man a she in English.
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I don't disagree in principle. But if we are talking specificaly about Japanese honorifics they are not just about seniority, it is culturally expected to add -san to any person you talk to, even friends, the only exception is close family. Age is not strictly related here. Dropping suffix is regarded as being extremely intimate.
Calling people -sama is strictly anime shit you never hear that IRL.
There's only one solution: grammatical force fem :sicko-hippie:
In German, i sometimes do just that and use the feminine gender as the grammatical default. It triggers the chuds like crazy, as German traditionally defaults to the masculine gender when it's not specified and the boomers always go "well, women are obviously included in that bEcAuSe iT's oNlY gRaMmAtiCaL gEnDeR".
But usually i prefer the : to attach the feminine suffix (the : is a placeholder and signifies that enbies are also included). So instead of saying "poster" to refer to someone who posts a lot, i'd write "Poster:in". This (or variants where you use the * instead of :) is a common way to make German gender inclusive in leftist and radlib circles and ofc also triggers the chuds. You can trigger them even more by pronouncing the : or * as a glottal stop. It's a huge culture war issue over here, and opposing it is tied more and more into mysogyny, transphobia and enbiephobia.