How language shapes gender

Thank you everyone for your appreciation and feedback, this was a very dear topic close to my heart and I only hope I was able to do justice to the topic and all your beautiful languages. Some corrections based on your feedbacks: 1. Nepali is indeed a gendered language! It was a mistake on my part to include it in genderless languages. I should have known as Pahari, Kumaoni, Garhwali and Nepali are all from the same family and it is unlikey that only Nepali would be genderless. Apologies for this one. 2. Dog is a living being, not a non living being as the video says 😅 apologies to the wonderful doggos 🐶 3. It's not Noi, it's Nodi in Bangla, that was a typo. 4. It's taazhe in MalayaLam and not taaLe Thank you for being so amazing. Love you all 💖😘

His voice and narration make it feel like having conversation with a friend (though highly knowledgeable)

Being a Bengali with strict parents, I always talked to my female friends in Bengali, so my parents wouldn't know if I was talking to a female friend or a male friend.

I'm Keralite, living in Tamil Nadu, I selected Hindi as a second language in class ten and I was completely perplexed by words changing according to gender 😬 eventually I got a hang of it and now I'm okay with it😂

My Bengali dad never used to get angry at us growing up no shouting no thappads, cooked and packed our school lunch while mom helped us get ready, always jokes around and smiles often, tells us he loves us, still dances in the rain, let me go to another state for my university and now I’m doing my masters in a foreign country and he has always been supportive. Sure I didn’t need any financial help cuz full board scholarship but I’ve seen my childhood friends whose dads wouldn’t remember their freaking birthdays much less let them leave to study elsewhere…. So if Bengali men are considered effeminate men and they are like this I’d gladly mingle with effeminate men. You don’t need wartime leaders in peacetime….

Mind = Blown ! This has to be most content rich video I had ever seen. People complete PhD / Masters thesis with less.

Being a Bengali, I still make mistakes in gender while speaking Hindi, even when I have learnt the language 15 years ago. Mothertongue influences us in ways much more than we can comprehend. I feel so blessed to have been born in such a diverse country like ours.🙃❤

Can we take a min to appreciate his accent..... You speak like a native speaker. I'm not sure about other languages but the way you spoke Odia was legit, as a Odia I'll say, "Tame bahut bhala kahila bhai."😅😊 And all these information is so rich. Thank you buddy.

As a Tamil and linguist, let me say I really appreciate how you pronounce the name of my language! Most north Indians seem to struggle with it

You brought tears to my eyes brother. I am an Axomiya, never heard such brilliant pronounciation by any other non Assamese speakers. And when you said Axomiya. Bro...❤️❤️❤️

Bonus Fun fact: Han Chinese names tell you almost nothing about the person, not even gender. From most Indian names, you will instantly know gender, religion, region, caste, etc. This has huge implications.

I'm a Bengali and you were right that we do have gender issues when communicating in Hindi....u were bang on about what ever u said. Best wishes and keep up the good work 👍👍

I'm an anthroplogist by study and this is a very good explanation of things. Well done! That's why it's important to protect isolated, endangered languages because when a language dies so does an entire world view.

As a native English speaker, it certainly looks as if learning Bengali would be the easiest option from a structural point of view. of course, pronunciation would be another matter altogether! This was very clearly and intelligently explained, thank you.

you know there's something wrong when you feel emotional because no one's talked to you as nicely as the speaker here did

I was born and raised in the U.S.A. my parents are gujju and i picked up speaking gujarati and a little bit of hindi. but i didnt realize just how diverse all the languages are in terms of structure within India. I have Bengali and Bangladeshi friends but had no idea Bangla is gender neutral! So many south indian friends yet no clue how the genders of those languages worked as well. Truly informative and oh so fascinating. And seems like your accent for all the languages was pretty spot on too. Loved this video, im so glad it was randomly recommended to me!

Being a South Indian who can speak kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. I must say this video has made me much more aware than experience. Wonderful way of explaining this with respect to the sub continent. Must've taken a lot of effort, well done brother!

I am a Hindi speaker living in Bengal who was never able to actually figure out why Bengalis tend to mix up genders while speaking Hindi. It has been for the first time in around 17 years of speaking Bengali that I have actually realised that it's a gender neutral language causing obvious confusion in the minds of native Bengalis....all thanks to you 😌😌.

THIS GUY DOES HIS RESEARCH MAKES EVERYONE FALL IN LOVE WITH THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AS WELL AS LANGUAGES FROM ALL OVER INDIA❤️ i really appreciate it :)))

As a malayali, the concept of gendered objects was confusing for me too. Plus, it's so hard to remember which is which, Malayalam seems much more efficient. Bengali and Odia even more so