You didn&#x27;t read the quote.<p>&gt; almost all European languages belong to one family – Indo-European<p>This is where we see &quot;almost&quot;. Basque, for example, is a European language, but famously does not belong to the Indo-European language family.<p>&gt; and of all of them, English is the only one that doesn’t assign genders that way<p>No qualifier here. Armenian is an Indo-European language with no grammatical gender (making it even less gendered than English), which the quote states, boldly and without qualification, to be impossible.<p>You could make the argument that he ignored the word &quot;European&quot;, because to you Armenian is an Asian language and not a European one -- but saying &quot;English is the only language <i>within an oddly-shaped geographic region</i> to have some special feature&quot; is a very strange way to assign significance. Saying &quot;English is the only descendant of Proto-Indo-European to have mostly lost its grammatical gender&quot;  gets the idea of &quot;what might be interesting&quot; right -- it makes more sense to compare English to sister languages than to compare it to unrelated languages that happen to lie within the same weird gerrymander outline you drew on a map -- but it isn&#x27;t true.