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'''{{PAGENAME}}'''s are a singular third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in, typically created with the intent of being a gender-neutral pronoun set.
== Definitions==
In English, and many other [[wikipedia:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]], third-person pronouns can be gendered. In English, "she/her" is considered to be for women, "he/him" for men, and "they/them" by non-binary individuals. Realisitically, many individuals [[Pronoun Non-Conforming|deviate]] from this convention. Some individuals prefer using neopronouns as an alternative gender-neutral pronoun set.
|that is ''faers''
|fae likes ''faerself''
|}"It" pronouns are sometimes not considered neoprominal, because the pronoun set is commonly used by transgender people and therefore could be seen as an excepted first person pronoun. However, outside of intracommunity transgender people, many people only use it pronouns for a human being in a derogatory fashion.<br />
==Subsets==
====Nounself====
It is unclear where the word "nounself" itself was first coined, although it may be on Tumblr because of the amount of popularity that nounself sets gained, starting in 2015.
=====Thonself =====
The earliest example of what could be called a nounself pronoun was proposed by by American lawyer Charles Crozat Converse in 1884. Converse took the words "this one" and "that one" and proposed ''thon'' as a gender-neutral pronoun set.American composer Charles Crozat Converse who proposed the pronoun set thon/thons/thonself in 1858.<ref>https://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=43422</ref> It was based on a contraction of "that one". The ''thon'' pronoun was included in some dictionaries such as Webster's International Dictionary (1910), Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary (1913), and Webster's Second International (1959). The pronouns are not widely used in the present day. In the 2019 Gender Census, 18 (0.2%) people said that they were happy to be referred to by ''thon''.<ref name=":0">https://gendercensus.com/post/183832246805/gender-census-2019-the-full-report-worldwide</ref>{{Quote|thon. Pronoun of the 3rd person, common gender, meaning “that one, he she, or it”: a neoterism proposed by Charles Crozat Converse, and apparently complying with the neoteristic canons, since it supplies an antecedent blank, obeys a simple and obvious analogy, and is euphonious.|—FunkFunk and Wagnalls, Supplement to A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1903|https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/third-person-gender-neutral-pronoun-thon}}
For most of the 20th century, ''thon'' appeared in various publications of Funk and Wagnalls, and also spread to another dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Second New International Dictionary (1934 edition). ''Thon'' was removed from abridged dictionary in the third edition.
While "neopronouns" are typically used to describe third person pronouns, the definition of the word could also apply to alternate first person pronouns. These are not common, but alternate first person pronouns do exist and are used, which may or may not be related to being transgender.
==Community==
===Statistics===
▲*25% of LGBTQ youth use they/them exclusively, a combination of he/him, she/her, or they/them, or neopronouns such as ze/zir or fae/faer.<ref>https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/07/29/research-brief-pronouns-usage-among-lgbtq-youth/</ref>
===Controversy ===
====Flags====
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Neopronouns by ferns-garden.png|Neopronouns flag ([https://ferns-garden.tumblr.com/ ferns-garden] (formerly beanjamoose), on or before 1 July 2019<ref>[https://archive.md/zYnUh ferns-garden's/beanjamoose's neopronoun flag, posted to yourfave-uses-neopronouns.]</ref>)<br>Stripe meanings from top to bottom:<ref>[https://archive.md/zYnUh yourfave-uses-neopronouns' post on the stripe meanings of ferns-garden's/beanjamoose's neopronoun flag.]</ref><ul><li>[[Masculine]]-identifying people who use neopronouns.</li><li>Older pronoun sets and the history behind them.</li><li>[[Nonbinary]]-identifying people who use neopronouns.</li><li>Newer pronoun sets and the happiness that comes with them.</li><li>[[Feminine]]-identifying people who use neopronouns.</li></ul>|alt=A flag with five horizontal stripes. From top to bottom: light green, cyan, white, tan, and light orange.
Neopronouns by uncommongenders.png|Neopronouns flag (uncommongenders{{Icon|Tumblr}} (deactivated), 5 June, 2018<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200821150412/https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/174605594564/okay-so-i-wanted-to-make-hq-versions-of uncommongender's neopronouns flag.]</ref>)|alt=A flag with three horizontal stripes. From top to bottom: lime green, white, and indigo. The middle stripe is half as wide as the others.
Neopronouns (1).png|Neopronouns flag {{CitationNeeded}}|alt=A flag with five horizontal stripes. From top to bottom: Dark purple, lavender, pink, tan, and light lilac.
Neopronominal by neopronouns.png|Neopronominal flag ([https://neopronouns.tumblr.com neopronouns], <ref>[https://archive.ph/3VKul neopronouns' neopronominal flag.]</ref>)|alt=A flag with seven horizontal stripes. From outside to inside: turquoise, white, light orange, and orange.
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====Combinations====
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