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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/2biggij on 2023-08-07 22:38:52+00:00.

Arabic, German, Hindi, Somali, Hebrew, Pashto, Czech, Swedish, Greek, polish, Irish, Russian, and of course all of the Romance languages have male and female gendered words. Why did so many completely unrelated languages develop this seemingly unintuitive feature?