Time, space, characters, events, causation and relationships are things that we expect to encounter in the study of the physical world, but the work of theoretical linguists has shown that these concepts also figure in the grammar of human language; explicitly and formally, in syntactic and semantic representations (Carol Tenny). In linguistics, a grammatical gender is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns or gender-based adjective endings. This classification is a feature of many languages, though not all languages have gendered nouns. Unlike Arabic, French and Spanish, Finnish language has no specific gendered articles (e.g., “el” or “la” “he” “she” “هو” “هي” in Arabic, English and Spanish respectively).
Sataa (Finnish)
Il pleut (French)
إنها تمطر (Arabic)
In Finnish language, the third person singular pronoun “hän” can refer to both “he” and “she” in English, as it doesn’t differentiate between genders, hough none of the inflections in a language relate to sex or gender. To specify gender, Finnish uses words like “mies” for a man and “nainen” for a woman. Finnish nouns are gender-neutral. This means that there are no specific gendered articles or gender-based adjective endings. According to one estimate, gender is used in approximately half of the world’s languages. According to one definition: “Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behaviour of associated words.
Unlike many other languages, English, has no grammatical gender for nouns. English uses natural gender to denote the sex of living beings (e.g., boy/girl, man/woman) and relies on context or specific words (e.g., actor/actress, waiter/waitress) to indicate gender when necessary. Nouns in the Arabic language are gendered. There are two genders: Feminine and masculine. The masculine gender is the main gender. To make a noun feminine, the letter “ة” is added at the end as “طبيبة” ”طبيب” ”مدرس” ”مدرسة”
Unlike many other languages, English, has no grammatical gender for nouns. English uses natural gender to denote the sex of living beings (e.g., boy/girl, man/woman) and relies on context or specific words (e.g., actor/actress, waiter/waitress) to indicate gender when necessary. Nouns in the Arabic language are gendered. There are two genders: Feminine and masculine. The masculine gender is the main gender. To make a noun feminine, the letter “ة” is added at the end as “طبيبة” ”طبيب” ”مدرس” ”مدرسة” The gender agreement case in omitting the type of confusion that occurs in establishing genders of inanimate objects, i.e. chair, pen, etc. The gender of a noun is an essential aspect of the language and affects the forms of associated words, such as articles, adjectives, and pronouns.
Let us describe how to return the grammatic gender for the word ‘doctor’. The script below is written in Python scripting language. For our analysis we have chosen the text analysis library NLTK and the NLTK corpora. NLTK is the main library used for text analysis. The package is available for download on the internet. There is also a link to our repository in GitHub and it is accessible for down load. The term ‘doctor’ or ‘طبيب’ /tabib/ is returned as noun. The script could be applied to any term in the Arabic corpus.
