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Personal pronouns

The personal pronouns are:

	1st person		2nd person	3rd person
singular				human	animate	inanimate
	ɔn		eš	ucmi	uc	ucɑ
plural	inclusive	exclusive		human	animate	inanimate
	ɔneš	ɔnɔn	ešeš	ucumi	ucuc	ucucɑ

Unlike any other elements of the sentence, the personal pronouns compulsorily distinguish the number singular from the plural.

Le forme di terza persona effettuano una distinzione triplice di referenti. Presenta infatti forme diverse per riferirsi ad entità umane, animate o inanimate.

For the 1^st plural person, two forms are distinguished. The first form is called the first inclusive plural person, which includes both the speaker and the listener, while the second form is called the first exclusive plural person, which includes the speaker but excludes the listener:

All forms, if adjoined by the prepositions kṓ or lḗ, play the role of an indeclinable possessive pronoun, being placed after a demonstrative pronominal form.

bū́gnez ŋu rosan isɔn ukmi lḗ ešeš
my father saw yours

	singular	plural
1st person	ɔn	ɔnɔn
2st person	eʂ	eʂeʂ
3st person	uʈ	uʈuʈ

For the 1^st plural person an alternative form is built, by merging the 1^st singular person form with the 2^nd singular person form.

This form conveys the first inclusive plural person, which includes both the speaker and the listener, while the normally reduplicated form conveys the first exclusive plural person, which includes the speaker but excludes the listener:

	singular	inclusive plural	exclusive plural
1st person	ɔn	ɔneʂ	ɔnɔn

The 3^st person pronoun usually refers to semantically animate or human entities, although it may technically refer to every entity. For inanimate or unreal entities, demonostrative adjectives or pronouns are rather used.

All forms, if adjoined by the preposition koː, play the role of an indeclinable possessive adjective, being placed after a noun, or the role of indeclinable possessive pronoun, being placed after a demonstrative pronominal form.

buːgnez ŋuh ʐanhan koː eʂeʂ roshan koː ɔn
my father saw your mother

buːgnez ŋuh uʈ koː eʂeʂ roshan koː ɔn
my father saw yours