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ziq wrote

I only know about Greek. This is a good summary:

Modern Greek language maintains three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. First and second person pronouns are genderless, while third person ones in both singular and plural use different endings to distinguish among the three genders. Greek verbs, however, have six endings (three persons, two numbers) and personal pronouns are rarely used, thus ensuring gender neutrality when needed. Difficulties arise with nouns denoting professions. Those ending in -ος (-os) are identical for men and women, but those ending in -ας (-as) or -ης (-is) are masculine with corresponding feminine in -ρια (-ria). Some nouns denoting professions have no feminine form at all. In such cases, the masculine forms are used for women as well using feminine articles. Most have colloquial feminine forms (which were normal during the Byzantine years) using the infix ιν (in) or αιν (ain). Examples, ο / η γιατρός (o / i giatros) with additional colloquial η γιατρίνα / γιάτραινα (i giatrina / giatraina) “the doctor”, ο / η ηθοποιός (o / i ithopios) “the actor / actress” (no colloquial feminine form in Greek), ο αθλητής / η αθλήτρια (o athlitis / i athlitria) “the athlete”, ο / η βουλευτής (o / i vouleftis) with additional colloquial η βουλευτίνα (i vouleftina) “deputy, member of parliament”. The noun άνθρωπος (anthropos) “human being, person” is masculine and when it is not known whether a man or a woman is referenced, masculine profession nouns or adjectives are used, unless it is important to the speaker to differentiate.

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kore wrote

I study ancient Greek, so this was interesting to read :). Do you (or any other people you know) ever make noun endings neuter (say for a profession) for a non-binary person? Also, are names gendered grammatically in Modern Greek?

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ziq wrote (edited )

A lot of names are gendered:

O Marios

H Maria

O Nikos

H Niki

Everything's preceeded by either O for male, H for female or Oi for multiple. Both H and Oi are pronounced 'ee'.

For some reason dogs are treated as male and cats as female.

O skilos

H gata

For multiple:

Oi skiloi

Oi gatoi

For both male and female the word used for doctor is the same where I'm from (not Greece):

O giatros (γιατρός)

H giatros.

For multiple doctors:

Oi giatroi

I guess to make a profession neutral you'd say, for a doctor: "Oi yiatros"? Which would sound the same as the descriptor for a female doctor since Oi and H sound the same. Idk if there's a better way that's less confusing.

Some professions have gender variations in the words. Like a teacher:

O daskalos

H daskala

Oi daskaloi

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