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Guy labeled "languages where everything is gendered" hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled "non-binary people" runs away
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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It's a historical grammatical thing. It's like a "tag" on one word that could be duplicated on another word (agreement of adjectives, verbs, etc. with a noun) so that information is not just preserved but error-corrected in case someone misspeaks or mishears.
Gender is actually a subset of class systems in general and is overblown because of bias towards Indo-European class systems which happen to be mostly along lines of gender.
Yeah I know, not really an improvement if we start calling it a class system instead of gender ๐
To answer your question, I guess a language could break down without this redundancy mechanism of class agreement. But then descendants of European languages like pidgins and creoles often just drop gender altogether and work just fine.