Does Your New Language Use Gender? Probably. Gender was a prominent feature of Proto-Indo-European, a language spoken in the fourth millennium BCE by a nomadic tribe living in southwestern Russia. Their language gave birth to most of the languages spoken in Europe, the Americas, Russia, and the Indian Subcontinent. There are three billion native speakers of languages in the Proto-Indo-European family, so there’s a good chance you’re learning one of these languages, and therefore need to learn gender. If you’re not sure, check here: TinyURL.com/wikigender.
