Tsalagi third person pronouns aren't separate words like English pronouns are.
He/It/She (and singular They, but you won't see that in most books bc transphobia; plural They has its own prefix, as do various groupings like "you and I", "he/she/it and I", "you two", "all of us", "they and I", and "you all/y'all") all have the same singular pronoun (a-, ga-, or g-) which is a prefix to the word which denotes what the subject is doing, or the item that belongs to the subject. If you want to specify gender of the subject, you have to actually, specifically say the the gender.
Some examples:
Aholi: "Her/His/Its (or singular Their) mouth"; also just the word for mouth bc a mouth always belongs to someone
Third person action: Agoliye'a: "He/It/She is (or singular They are) looking at it"
Third person action w/gender specified: Na asgaya agoliye'a: "The man, He is looking at it"
Despite the third person pronoun prefix being genderless/gender neutral, there is still a lot of binary gendered language in Tsalagi, and very little language for those of us who are trans, nonbinary, abinary, intersex, altersex, multigendered, &/or otherwise sexgender variant. I know there are neologisms created by some people online, but a few that I've seen have been insulting if I'm being totally honest, and they're so niche that nobody really knows them.
We can omit the gendered words altogether in speech (third person action w/o gender specified) when we reference people, but men & women will likely get upset if we try to remove the language altogether. Of course, they'll also get upset if we try to create language for people with sexgenders outside of the binary, for people with multiple sexgenders, or for people without a sexgender whatsoever. So it's a lose lose.
This sort of shit makes me hesitant to buckle down and learn Tsalagi. I get misgendered enough in one language; I don't want to deal with it in another. I'm anti binary in every sense, not just when it comes to the colonizers' binary. Transphobia, exorsexism, intersexism, and the like aren't just a white people problem. I'm still going to try to learn it to spite the colonizers and honor my heritage, but I'm dreading it.
