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@TulliusCicero: the only true genderless language is Persian. There is no he, she, it even. There is no way to hear if someone is man or woman without a precise context or asking "Man or Women?", which I often hear Iranians ask in Conversations.

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> the only true genderless language is Persian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of_g... begs to differ. There are whole language families without genders.

There certainly are. To their point, quite a few of the languages on that list with no grammatical gender are of a similar ancestor language as Persian.

English, German, French, etc are also "of a similar ancestor language as Persian".

Interestingly, it's an easy language & script to learn. In terms of what someone referred to as a "good global language" for universal ease of learning, it provides a great base.

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