In some communities, women and men speak different languages or dialects due to traditions of men marrying outside their tribe, where each tribe has its own language. In some languages like the extinct Yana language and the Chiquitano language, words used between men tend to be longer than equivalents used by women due to men's forms sometimes adding suffixes. In modern Japanese, distinctions in language forms are more about degrees of formality rather than gender, with "men's" forms seen as casual or vulgar and "women's" forms used by all in public settings.
In some communities, women and men speak different languages or dialects due to traditions of men marrying outside their tribe, where each tribe has its own language. In some languages like the extinct Yana language and the Chiquitano language, words used between men tend to be longer than equivalents used by women due to men's forms sometimes adding suffixes. In modern Japanese, distinctions in language forms are more about degrees of formality rather than gender, with "men's" forms seen as casual or vulgar and "women's" forms used by all in public settings.
In some communities, women and men speak different languages or dialects due to traditions of men marrying outside their tribe, where each tribe has its own language. In some languages like the extinct Yana language and the Chiquitano language, words used between men tend to be longer than equivalents used by women due to men's forms sometimes adding suffixes. In modern Japanese, distinctions in language forms are more about degrees of formality rather than gender, with "men's" forms seen as casual or vulgar and "women's" forms used by all in public settings.
communities Women and men do not speak in exactly the same way as each other in any community. in any longhouse the language used by a child’s mother is different from her father’s language, because men must marry outside their own tribe, and each tribe is distinguished by a different language. In this community, women and men speak different languages. Word-shapes in other languages contrast because women and men use different affixes. In Yana, a (now extinct) North American Indian language, and Chiquitano, a South American Indian language, some of the words used between men are longer than the equivalent words used by women and to women, because the men’s forms sometimes add a suffix In modern standard Japanese, these distinctions are more a matter of degrees of formality or politeness than gender; so the ‘men’s’ forms are largely restricted to casual contexts and are considered rather vulgar, while the ‘women’s’ forms are used by everyone in public contexts.