3-3 Now after presenting the distribution of gender marking patterns in around 257 spoken languages, there also empirical evidence and more data on the patterns and distribution of ‘personal pronouns’, like ‘he’, ‘she’ etc. with ‘masculine-feminine’ distinctions or the lack of which also come from data collected from 378 languages [Ref. WALS***]. Out of the 378 spoken languages, 254 have no ‘male-female’ distinctions; while just 124 have some ‘masculine-feminine’ pronominal references but also have so much variation, too. Again, in this post, the linguistic empirical evidence suggests that the majority of the languages studied so far show us that the dominating linguistic pattern across all of the relevant linguistic domains is ‘non-binary’. References and Supplementary Data *http://www.ethnologue.com **https://wals.info/feature/31A#0/23/103]. *** https://wals.info/feature/44A#0/18/148].
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