A new gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed.
“Hen” would become an alternative to the existing singular third-person pronouns, the feminine “hun” and the masculine “han”.
“Over time, we have seen that the actual use of hen has increased and stabilised,” Daniel Ims, a representative of the council, told Norwegian media.
Ims said that while gender-neutral pronouns had been discussed in Norway’s linguistic and grammar community for some time, the arguments for their use were not initially mirrored by Norwegian speech patterns.
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