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GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE - European Parliament
GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGEin theEuropean Parliament2 FOREWORDIn 2008, the European Parliament was one of the first international organisations toadopt multilingual guidelines on GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE . I am pleased that, sincethen, many other institutions and organisations have adopted similar guidance. Onthe occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the guidelines, and in order to reflectlinguistic and cultural developments, the High-Level Group on Gender Equality andDiversity requested Parliament s services to update the GENDER-NEUTRAL languageguidelines, whichprovide practical advice in all official languages on the use ofgender-fair and inclusive behalf of the High-Level Group, I very much welcome this updated edition of thegender-neutral LANGUAGE guidelines which is the fruit of a close collaboration amongthe relevant linguistic and administrative Europea
ISSUES COMMON TO MOST LANGUAGES Although the specific ways to avoid sexist language vary from one language to another, a number of the following issues are common to most languages. 1. GENERIC USE OF THE MASCULINE GENDER The traditional grammatical convention in most grammatical gender languages is that for
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