Indian Languages Quotes

“It is only when they see how complex and arbitrary grammatical gender is in the north, where even nouns that do not yet exist are pre-assigned a gender (a hadron collider would have a gender, for example), that they sit back in wonder. Weapons we don't yet have. Scientific processes that are only now being developed. Made-up words. All of these have a gender in the Extended Indus Valley Periphery, and what is more, no one has any doubt about what it is going to be.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia