The distinction between "he", "she", and other personal pronouns, on one hand, and "it", on the other hand is a distinction in animacy in English and in many Indo-European languages. The same can be said about distinction between "who" and "what". Some languages, such as Turkish, Georgian, Spoken Finnish and Italian do not distinguish between "s/he" and "it". In Finnish, there is a distinction in animacy between , "he/she," and , "it", but in Spoken Finnish "" can mean "he/she". English shows a similar lack of distinction between "they" animate and "they" inanimate in the plural but, as shown above, it has such a distinction in the singular.