gender voice variants

[Michael Everson]

On 19 Dec 2012, at 19:48, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Broome, Karen <Karen.Broome at am.sony.com> wrote:
>> I should maybe note that almost all Czech words have three forms depending on gender (there is neutral too).
> 
> Not just Czech. All Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish etc.; circa ~500 millions of speakers) have clear distinction between masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

This is all common knowledge. 

> Semitic languages tend to have distinction between masculine and feminine even for pronouns like "I" and "you" are.
> 
> German has feminine/masculine distinction, as well (although not as widespread as the languages above).

Incorrect. German has three grammatical genders. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/