French Language
Like other Romance languages, French is derived from Latin which had three genders: masculine, feminine and neutral. Masculine and feminine genders were used for animates, respecting their natural genders, while neutral gender was reserved for inanimates. Those words which were already termed as masculine and feminine in Latin tend to stay the same in ancient French. On the other hand, the grammatically gender-neutral words were changed predominantly to masculine.
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