[hipaa_eng]

as a swahili speaker I'd say that the beauty of swahili is that it's commonplace to butcher these noun classes unless you're from Tanzania. Kenyans, Congolese, Ugandas do it all the time

[justsomehnguy]

As a speaker of a gendered language in a neighbourhood of a non-gendered ones: aside a few anecdotes nobody cares.