Answering to:
" "In most languages" is not true. The majority of the
world's languages do not have gender.
This includes:
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, ..."
Most languages have grammar genders or similar.
You can find more in:
http://www.ielanguages.com/eurolang.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
The most part of Indo-European languages have genders.
Af far as for what i've found those languages have
numbers and (2 or 3) genders:
Italian (2)
French (2)
German (3)
Spanish (2)
Greek (3)
Portguese (2 in Portugal, 3 in Brazil)
Dutch (less used)
Belgian
Danish (2)
Norwegian (3)
Bulgarian (3)
Polish (3)
Czech (4)
Russian (3)
Yiddish (2)
Plus
Australian Aborigenal and many african language. I
don't know enough for others not indo-european
languages.
All Romance language have genders. All germanic
languages have genders, but english. All slavich
languages have ganders.
The 10 most spoken language in the wolrd are
Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
Arabic* (174,950,000)
Portuguese (170,000,000)
Russian (170,000,000)
Japanese (125,000,000)
German (98,000,000)
French* (79,572,000)
Spanish, Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian,
French, German have genders. Italian too.
I think it's enough to consider this could be a
problem for many wikipedians. Creating redirects for
different forms of a word is a concern for most
languages.
Regards,
Valentina Faussone
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