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John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at Columbia and a great resource for popular understanding of linguistics. He has written many books, has a number of Great Courses series, and has a podcast called Lexicon Valley. I can’t give you a specific reference for your question, but I’m certain he has covered the topic of variations in the handling of gender in many languages. Spanish has masculine and feminine; German has masculine, feminine, and nueter; and other languages have many more variations of gender based on such things as shape and position.
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