Eli5: Why do you use “they” for non-gendered speech instead of “it”?

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I’m not a native speaker, but as far as I understood, for singular objects and animals “it” was used. Why use “they” for individual people then?

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”We had a party last night, while cleaning up, i have found a lost cell phone. I hope they call so i figure out who it is.”

We use they often, to represent a singular person without realizing it.

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