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In some languages, pronouns are used not to specify sex, but rather whether something is alive or not. We don’t need to treat or think of people differently based on whether they are men or women, but we do need to treat all living things differently than objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Menominee language (and many Algonquin native American languages), living things include people, animals, and even trees. Thinking of trees, animals, and forests as worthy of respect could help us think more completely about resource use and protecting the world that is so important to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This article makes a case for animacy gender pronouns: ‘Nature needs a new pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let\u2019s Start by Ditching \u201cIt\u201d’ (Yes Magazine): https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issue\/together-earth\/2015\/03\/30\/alternative-grammar-a-new-language-of-kinship\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This one<\/a> by Kara Huntermoon looks promising – need to read later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More about the pronouns by Kara Huntermoon<\/a> which explores adapting them slightly to fit the English language better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apparently Basque has animacy pronoun division also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Menominee grammar and animacy: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menominee_language#Animacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Algonquian languages have two genders, animate and inanimate: http:\/\/www.bigorrin.org\/archive21.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Short Annotated Bibliography of Animate and Inanimate Cases in Basque and Algonquin Languages<\/strong>: https:\/\/www.sidis.net\/Algonquin%20_%20Basque%20_biblio.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Duluth Reader: “The Grammar of Animacy”: https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/17\/113755-the-grammar-of-animacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Speaking of Nature” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (originally in Orion magazine): https:\/\/www.globalonenessproject.org\/library\/essays\/speaking-nature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some languages use word gender to show whether something is animate or inanimate. Ki am human, and ki is an oak that’s seen 120 years, and ki is another living being that deserves respect no matter who or what ki loves or contributes.more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-lina","has-excerpt","post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeitgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}for my review and incorporation later:<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n