1-3 Human languages So far we have presented an empirical historical and archaeological evidence and we have also synthesized that evidence in the documented literature in the cradles of human civilization, as it occurred in the Mediterranean, Old Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, India and also the Middle East. Now, we are going to move this to our ‘Linguistic capacity’ and ‘thought’. How do humans around the world conceptualize these aspects? How do humans use references towards one another? And what are those references? There are around 7159 languages and around 7.683 billion individuals in the world today. Linguistically, ‘gender’ is syntactic category which could be ‘sex-based’ or ‘non-sex-based’; and this category can be demonstrated in any spoken language in two main ways; while also there some spoken languages that lacks the category of gender altogether: 1. Through a productive inflectional pattern - known as gender marking: as in clitics or affixes; usually shown in a string of nominal agreement system; or 2. Through free pronominal forms which occur independently carrying a gender category which also could be sex-based or non-sex-based.
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