Differentiate between natural gender languages, grammatical gender languages, and genderless languages. What does the research say about the connection between the type of gendered language and countries’ societal gender equality?
What will be an ideal response?
Natural gender languages means that although personal pronouns are differentiated by gender, most personal pronouns are gender neutral. Grammatical gender languages means various parts of speech that would not naturally be considered masculine or feminine are inflected with gender. Genderless languages mean neither personal nouns nor pronouns are differentiated for gender. Researchers have demonstrated that these different language types reflect societal gender equality. In one study, researchers found that countries with grammatical gender languages tend to have less gender equality relative to countries with natural gender languages or genderless languages.
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