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Gender-specific pronouns in the languagelanguages without grammatical gender?

There are various discussions, also on SE network, about the usage of "gender-neutral" language, where the most controvercescontroversies arise around using "he"the pronoun "he" to address any user.

Such problems are caused by the fact, that the English language has almost completely lost grammatical gender of the nouns, but it still has gender-specific pronouns. Therefore, any (such as "user") can be addressed as "he", "she" or "it" (in most Indo-European languages, the "correct" pronoun is defined, for example, in Polish "user" is masculinummasculine).

Are there (many) other languages which has also have the same situation, so no grammatical gender of the noun, but gender-specific pronouns?

Georgian or Chinese, for example, hashave no grammatical gender, but also no gender-specific pronouns.

Gender-specific pronouns in the language without grammatical gender?

There are various discussions, also on SE network, about the usage of "gender-neutral" language, where the most controverces arise around using "he" pronoun to address any user.

Such problems are caused by the fact, that the English language has almost completely lost grammatical gender of the nouns, but it still has gender-specific pronouns. Therefore, any (such as "user") can be addressed as "he", "she" or "it" (in most Indo-European languages, the "correct" pronoun is defined, for example, in Polish "user" is masculinum).

Are there (many) other languages which has also the same situation, so no grammatical gender of the noun, but gender-specific pronouns?

Georgian or Chinese, for example, has no grammatical gender, but also no gender-specific pronouns.

Gender-specific pronouns in languages without grammatical gender?

There are various discussions, also on SE network, about the usage of "gender-neutral" language, where most controversies arise around using the pronoun "he" to address any user.

Such problems are caused by the fact that the English language has almost completely lost grammatical gender of the nouns, but it still has gender-specific pronouns. Therefore, any (such as "user") can be addressed as "he", "she" or "it" (in most Indo-European languages, the "correct" pronoun is defined, for example, in Polish "user" is masculine).

Are there (many) other languages which also have the same situation, so no grammatical gender of the noun, but gender-specific pronouns?

Georgian or Chinese, for example, have no grammatical gender, but also no gender-specific pronouns.

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Gender-specific pronouns in the language without grammatical gender?

There are various discussions, also on SE network, about the usage of "gender-neutral" language, where the most controverces arise around using "he" pronoun to address any user.

Such problems are caused by the fact, that the English language has almost completely lost grammatical gender of the nouns, but it still has gender-specific pronouns. Therefore, any (such as "user") can be addressed as "he", "she" or "it" (in most Indo-European languages, the "correct" pronoun is defined, for example, in Polish "user" is masculinum).

Are there (many) other languages which has also the same situation, so no grammatical gender of the noun, but gender-specific pronouns?

Georgian or Chinese, for example, has no grammatical gender, but also no gender-specific pronouns.