'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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28. Then one would have to go after most European languages EXCEPT English, Dutch and Scandinavian

Since Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are basically the same language with local quirks, they often refer to the local language as "Skandinavisk," although Danish pronunciation will always be referred to by its neighbors as a disease of the throat. They have "en" words and "ett" words, and have the particular quirk that the definite article is always attached to the end of the word.

Finnish, Hungarian, and Basque are located in Europe, but are not European in origin.

But the Latin-based languages all have the "gender" issue, not just French. Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Romansch and Romanian all have the same issue, as do German and the Slavic languages. These languages and their spoken versions are living, evolving things. I guess one can mount a movement to steer their development in a certain direction, but it seems like genetic engineering on a linguistic basis. It will rarely (if ever) seem natural to a native speaker.