"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> > http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/10/sex-symbols.html
>
>   In Finnish it's much easier because there are no gender-specific
pronouns,
> period.
>
>   (Curiously, I have never read or heard any theory about why this is the
> case in Finnish, even though most other languages do have gender-specific
> pronouns, and more over often lack a neutral third-person pronoun.)

AFAIK, Uralic (& Altaic) languages in general lack gender (besides having
agglutination and vowel harmony and some other common or similar
properties). Beyond that, it's impossible to say why or why not - any such
reason, of course, could not have been recorded.

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