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Multilinguo@multilinguo@mastodon.social (2026-08-26 03:48:13)
Feature comparison: grammatical gender.
The most common system on Earth is no gender at all.
0 (~50%): English, Mandarin, Turkish, Bengali, Japanese, Persian.
2 (~33%): Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi (m/f). Dutch, Swedish (common/neuter).
3 (~12%): German, Russian, Greek, Polish (m/f/n).
4+ (~4%): Dyirbal, Burushaski (4), Chechen (~6), Luganda (~10), Swahili (15-18).
25 (<1%): Fula, West Africa.
See your own grammar map: multilinguo.app
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