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A category of word which typically denotes an entity of some kind.

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Has grammatical gender ever been observed to emerge in a language that previously had none?

There is a paper about this: Lili Rabel-Heymann, ‘Gender in Khasi Nouns’, Mon-Khmer Studies Journal IV: 247-72 (1977), available online here. … It might therefore be said that the Khasi pronoun occurs as a free morpheme by itself and as a bound form before nouns and verbs. …
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