Basque. The Basque language is largely gender-free. Most nouns have no gender, though there are different words for females and males in some cases (ama, "mother"; aita, "father"; guraso, "parent").
There are some languages that have no gender! Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish, and many other languages don't categorize any nouns as feminine or masculine and use the same word for he or she in regards to humans.
China (Western Hunan, a poor province South of Yangtse.) Study of the scripts did not begin until 1950 but soon after had to be abandoned due to the Chinese Cultural revolution. When research began again in 1980, only about a dozen women could read nüshu and only three could write it.
This includes languages like Indonesian, Finnish, Hungarian and Mandarin. These languages still have words that mean “man” or “woman” and other words that designate a natural gender. However they have no pronouns or indicators for male/female in people or objects.
Pronouns are used less frequently in the Japanese language than in many other languages, mainly because there is no grammatical requirement to include the subject in a sentence. That means that pronouns can seldom be translated from English to Japanese on a one-to-one basis.
English doesn't really have a grammatical gender as many other languages do. It doesn't have a masculine or a feminine for nouns, unless they refer to biological sex (e.g., woman, boy, Ms etc). So gendered language is commonly understood as language that has a bias towards a particular sex or social gender.
Non-gendered or nonbinary pronouns are not gender specific and are most often used by people who identify outside of a gender binary. The most common set of nonbinary pronouns is they/them/their used in the singular (e.g., Jadzia identifies as genderqueer; they do not see themselves as either a woman or a man).
Genderless languages: Chinese, Estonian, Finnish, and other languages don't categorize any nouns as feminine or masculine, and use the same word for he or she in regards to humans. For people who don't identify along the gender binary, these grammatical differences can be significant.
In natural gender languages like English, the gender of the actual individual is referred to (she/her and he/him) but none of the other nouns are categorized for gender.
In contrast to many Indo-European (including Romance, Slavic and Germanic) languages, Japanese has no grammatical gender in its nouns or adjective agreement. Moreover, the Japanese honorifics such as -san and -sama are gender-neutral, which contrasts with Mr., Ms. or Mx. titles in English.
Norwegian dialects traditionally distinguish between three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
Meanwhile, the Zande language of Africa divides nouns into 4 genders: masculine, feminine, animal and inanimate. However, some inanimate objects that are important in Zande mythology are classified as animate. Other languages assign gender based on the ending of the word.
These vessels belong to the Bugis people, a seafaring society remarkable for its recognition of five separate genders.
She, her, hers and he, him, his are the most commonly used pronouns. Some people call these "female/feminine" and "male/masculine" pronouns, but many avoid these labels because, for example, not everyone who uses he feels like a "male" or "masculine." There are also lots of gender-neutral pronouns in use.
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If a child asks you about someone's gender, don't assume or pretend you know. Use thoughtful and gender-neutral language, such as "they" and "them" pronouns, to let your child know that until a person self identifies, you can't be sure.
“Firemen” is a sexist and exclusionary term that should be “erased from our vocabulary”, a top city official has said.
Daughter/Son
Child; neutral, formal. Offspring; neutral, formal. Sprog; neutral, informal.
Often parents have lots of terms of affection for their children that aren't gendered so they could use those. If you need to refer to someone's non-binary child you coould call them their child or their offspring, their little one, their youngster, rugrat, mini-me (or mini them)…