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German was incidentally what inspired this project, because I had read here about various German neopronouns, of which the most interesting was hen (dat. hem gen. henser). German hen was loaned from Scandinavian hen, the first attestation of which was in Swedish in the 1960s when it was first proposed. Swedish in turn got hen from Finnish hän, which has always been a gender-neutral language. Hän itself originates as an irregular debuccalization (apparently a reduced form) of Proto-Finno-Ugric *sen from Proto-Uralic *se(n).
But German seems to have a lot of different pronouns currently competing for the top spot, another proposal is apparently loaning English they and "germanizing" it into dey (acc. demm, dat. denen, gen. derer; alternative inflections exist). There is also the sere-German proposal of using a portmanteau of sie and er, sier (acc. sien, dat. siem, gen. sieser; alternative inflections exist). And there are many many many other proposals.