I edited my previous comment. See here:
replyhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language
There are also a ton of videos and blog posts on the subject.
Thanks! I should have been clear on the request, too. I'm curious if there are any good high density reads, as well as if there are some to avoid. It can be easy to fall into poor sources that over claim on what they are talking about. And I don't mean nefariously. Often enthusiasm is its own form of trap.
replyAh I gotcha. Sorry, it's just something I've skimmed at the surface level. The videos do refer to the key researchers, do you could look up their papers. I'm not sure what else would make sense.
reply> I have no idea how much gender actually enters thinking in the languages that we say are gendered.
replyNot much. It's mostly inference rules, just like in English use of pronouns. I's just more pervasive, pertaining to verbs, adjectives, etc... If we're talking about gendered living organism, then it's just a marker for that binary classification. Anything else, it's just baggage attached to the word.