A guide to how the gender neutral language is developing around the world

3. Some languages, like ___ and Persian, don’t assign nouns a gender or already have a gender-neutral form for people built in.
5. In the United States, it’s now common to use “x” or "@” to create a gender-neutral noun: that’s why you may have seen “Latinx,” or “Latin@,” instead of the binary of ___ (male) and Latina (female).
8. In 2019 the Merriam-Webster dictionary added “___” as the pronoun to use for a “single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”
9. In 2015, Sweden added to the country’s official dictionary the word “___” — a gender-neutral pronoun that linguists had pushed as an alternative to the male pronoun “han” and female “hon.”
10. The idea is instead to use ___ to combine case endings and create a more inclusive gender-neutral plural — like “ami•e•s” for friends — a first step that neither privileges the male as a norm nor excludes the male and a gender spectrum from the syntax.
11. LGBTQ and feminist activists in Hebrew have similarly championed inverting the gender divides, such as defaulting to a ___ plural or using a “mixed” gender, sometimes male and sometimes female for the same person.
12. Colloquial Arabic spoken today has largely done away with the ___, so this — )انتما( form can sound very formal to those not in the know.

1. In recent years, LGBTQ activists and linguists around the world have championed more inclusive language, both by creating entirely new non-binary terms and by ___ already existing words and grammar constructions.
2. “In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write — replacing the masculine “o” or the feminine “a” with the gender-neutral “e” in certain words — to change what they see as a deeply ___ culture,” Schmidt wrote.
4. Another form to know is “___” as a gender-neutral pronoun alongside ella (she) and él (he).
6. In January 2019, Hanover became the first German city to mandate that all official communication, such as emails, fliers and forms, use gender-___ nouns. Instead of using the word for a male voter (wähler) and a female voter (wählerin), for example, the municipality would instead use words that don’t convey one gender or another, like voting person (wählende).
7. In Israel, a related approach is to put both the male and female ___ on nouns and verbs, sometimes with a period in between, so that all are fluidly included.