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Why are there genders for different nouns?

Asked by roundsquare (5522points) July 2nd, 2010

In languages like German there are different genders for nouns. There are masculine, feminine and neuter nouns. How would a language develop like this naturally? Or did this not develop naturally (which I would consider even less likely)?

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