What’s the Point of Grammatical Gender?

Start learning languages with Busuu here: 💻 Web: 📱 Mobile: What is the purpose of Grammatical Gender in language? Why do the Romance languages have masculine and feminine, but German has neuter too? Is English more efficient than other Indo-European languages since it doesn’t use grammatical gender for innanimate objects? If that’s so, why do over a third of languages in the world persist in using this form of grammar? Is it archaic, or useful? Simon Roper has made a fabulous video on the subject of grammatical gender that I recommend: 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: ☕️ Support my work