Why do some languages use gendered nouns? - eviltoast

Why do some languages use gendered nouns? It seems to just add more complexity for no benefit.

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    9 months ago

    We don’t have a lot of records of what speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language were thinking because they lived c. 4500-2500 BC and didn’t have their own writing. I think the for the earliest writing we have of an Indo-European language gendered nouns had already been invented.