I already know about noun genders in German.
2007-06-22 19:36:58 · 9 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I was hoping someone could name a language other than English and German.
2007-06-22 19:41:57 · update #1
Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Hungarian
2007-06-22 20:21:53 · answer #1 · answered by obro 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Most European languages do have them, with the exception of English! We lost it along the way - possibly while Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was intigrating with Norman French(?) Languages such as Polish are made a lot more complex by the noun genders and the various word endings they produce.
Asian languages, on the whole, do not have noun genders but have different (usually pronunciation) problems which also make them challenging to learn. But if you want to avoid this particular archaic language hurdle, then perhaps Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian or Thai are for you.
2007-06-22 19:45:38 · answer #2 · answered by Bart S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Chinese does not have any grammatical genders (and a lot of the other things associated with inflected languages. According to Wikipedia, Danish does have gendered nouns: "Standard Danish nouns fall into only two grammatical genders: common and neuter, while some dialects still often have masculine, feminine and neuter. While the majority of Danish nouns (ca. 75%) have the common gender, and neuter is often used for inanimate objects, the genders of nouns are not generally predictable and must in most cases be memorized.." "Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect."
2016-05-18 01:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by geralyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese, Hmong, and Mien don't have any genders for nouns...but if speaking of female/male animals, or people they do.
When writing, in Chinese, a different character is used when speaking about a female, male, or neuter even though it's pronounced the same way when spoken.
2007-06-28 19:48:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Japanese, Chinese, and a raft of Pacific languages place no emphasis on grammatical gender in the way that European and Western Asian languages do.
2007-06-29 07:14:31 · answer #5 · answered by Derek M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all languages derived from latin do place importance on noun genders,the same with semitic languages(arabic,hebrew,...)
english does not
2007-06-28 22:39:26 · answer #6 · answered by jammal 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
english
2007-06-22 19:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by q6656303 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
from what i know, english asian languages definately NOT spanish
2007-06-22 19:46:02 · answer #8 · answered by fuji 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chinese.
2007-06-22 19:55:23 · answer #9 · answered by JJ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋