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1. It was the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) who restricted Hamitic to the non-Semitic languages in Africa, which are characterized by a grammatical gender system.

2. Distinct words and names for men and women are also common in languages which do not have a grammatical gender system for nouns in general.

3. Some languages that do have gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, where all or the vast majority of nouns are assigned to gender classes and adjectives and other modifiers must agree with them in that;

4. Like a number of other Northeast Caucasian languages, Hunzib has a grammatical gender system with five classes.