A genderless language is a natural

Natural language

In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...

 or constructed

Constructed language

A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally...

 human language

Human language

A human language is a language primarily intended for communication among humans. The two major categories of human languages are natural languages and constructed languages...

 that has no category of grammatical gender

Grammatical gender

Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...

. Some linguists use the term "noun class

Noun class

In linguistics, the term noun class refers to a system of categorizing nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its referent, such as sex, animacy, shape, but counting a given noun among nouns of such or another class is often clearly conventional...

" to be a broader categorization which includes the categorization by gender as a special case.

The notion of "genderless language" must not be confused with that of gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language, gender-inclusive language, inclusive language, or gender neutrality is linguistic prescriptivism that aims to eliminate reference to gender in terms that describe people...

. Also, a discourse in a genderless language is not necessarily gender-neutral

Gender-neutral

Gender neutrality describes the idea that language and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing people by their gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other...

, although genderless languages exclude many possibilities to gender-related stereotypes, such as using masculine pronouns when referring to persons by their occupations.

Genderless languages do have various means to recognize gender, such as gender-specific words, ("she", "mother", "son", etc.), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.

Genderless languages are listed in Noun class: languages without noun classes or grammatical genders.