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I'm learning Russian and I don't know what it is for that, but in German I've seen "xier", "sier", and "dey". I might use "dey/dem".

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[โ€“] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The language I know best besides English is Spanish, but since it's not my culture, I decided to look it up, and there's actually an interesting Wikipedia article about gender neutrality in Spanish.

There's a separate page for a proposed single nonbinary pronoun "Elle" (pronounced A-yay) which I really like.

[โ€“] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being a romance language, nouns in Spanish are also gendered, and use a gender modifier such as -a or -o. The elle pronoun is typically associated with -e forms of the nouns

[โ€“] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Some names don't follow that rule. Rocio is a woman's name.