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What are the pronouns they/them in your language?
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In French we have "iel". It's a mix of the male and female pronoms "il" and "elle".
Don't forget that other contraption : for "those" we have "celles" + "ceux" = "celleux" (and probably celle + celui into cuielle or something)
Then let's have fun with everybody : "toutes" and "tous" is an easy one - toustes !
Checking wikipedia on the matter, TIL that until the XII century French had neutrals "al" or "el", and these are proposed for a comeback
I am sincerely 100% for the transformation of language towards eradication of the default masculine and the new pronouns, but changing habits is hard.