>>42356193This is all to say, a gender almost always accompany a noun. The three genders are again, male/female/neutral.
SEA languages are like this due to their religious systems & culture having a concept of subtle energy flowing and shaping the world in those three ways. Being largely animist, everything has an associated gender. It's either male (active) female (passive) or neuter (neither/both/unsure/). But objects don't get given a noun like (it) which in a language like English, is typically a noun acting as preposition to an object. Referring to a kind of gendered and non living thing.
"What?" You say, like some big fag.
Again, SEA are largely influenced by animism. They don't have a concept of an object which does not have a sense of "being"-Ness.
However, European languages either use male and female genders, the third noun either refers to a singular person of unsure gender (they or them are the classical ones in english) or you have a word like it, which refers to something as an object.
Classical euro languages have male, male [neutral], female, female [neutral], with the last two [they/them] & [it]. Though, typically, male [neutral] is typically used in euro languages to refer to objects/ambiguous gendered objects.
The reason for word "it" or words similar existing in euro languages is due to christianity, which has a concept of living and non living objects. The word "it" gets used in languages like English for animals due to classical Christian thinking that animals are not ensouled.
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Again, very different for the Saar crowd, who's cultures have a concept of everything having a kind of "being" or "soul".