text_combined: genderless lgs content length 2009 hi gender people may missed something going list understand right claim language totally lacking gender system would something science fiction responses shown definitely case indo european line thinking natural conceptual grammatical categories albert ortmann among others made point e g uralic languages generally lack gender point case finnish language grammatical gender markers principle articles division male female pronoun system particular spoken finnish make distinction animate inanimate persons animals objects ideas may referred pronoun se yet slight comment ortmann theory case gender point case realized np seem conceivable least finnish point view attribute head must concord case hope interest could point uralic fennic scholar native speaking linguist best regards jan lindstrom dept scandinavian lgs university helsinki