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What is the purpose of Grammatical Gender in language? Why do the Romance languages have masculine and feminine, but German has neuter too? Is English more efficient than other Indo-European languages since it doesn't use grammatical gender for innanimate objects? If that's so, why do over a third of languages in the world persist in using this form of grammar? Is it archaic, or useful?

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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

00:00 Grammatical What?!
00:38 Busuu
01:48 Any Sense in Grammatical Gender?
02:34 Proto-Indo-European Origins
05:00 Are Romance Languages More Efficient than Latin?
05:56 Why Grammatical Gender is Useful
08:45 Gelato Time