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'''Xenopronouns''' are a type of hypothetical [[neopronouns]] that are not able to be understood by humans and/or expressed through human language. Theoretical examples of xenopronouns include:
No specific examples of xenopronouns can be provided because, by their nature, it would be impossible to express through human language.
However, in the context of a science-fiction story involving glowing aliens which communicate using wavelengths of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light light] which are not visible to the human eye (following theoretical example 6), hypothetically, one conceivable example could include some light-based encoding that would represent a name term. In this case, it is important to remember that physical elements of the universe, such as light, are accessible to all inhabitants of the universe, and because light can be leveraged as an information-possessing element, there are groups of humans (such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physicists] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics linguists]) who would be equipped to process the information in this hypothetical language scenario, and could therefore provide an account of the language's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax syntax] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics semantics]. This would allow for translation into human languages, which would also inform an account of how the language uses pronouns, if at all.
Regardless, the complexities of such a scenario are entirely theoretical and imaginative, and could imply a complete psychological dissimilarity between how humans frame concepts like gender and pronoun use, and how a potential alien might or might not conceive of these things. Thus, a bona fide translation of an alien language using information processing that is available to humans could very well result in a default usage of pronouns within any given human language, e.g. "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(pronoun) it]" in English (used to refer to non-human objects) or او (pronounced "oo", or more specifically, "ū") in Persian ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language?oldformat=true#Morphology which is already a genderless pronoun in its own language]).
In the case of xenopronoun users it is suggested to use [[Auxiliary Pronouns|auxiliary pronouns]] or treat them as [[nullpronoun]].
Xenopronouns are exclusive to [[alterhuman:Alterhuman|alterhumans]] and [[plural:Headmate|headmates]] who identify as (or just are) animals, aliens, robots, or other non-human creatures.
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