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===Personal pronouns===
===Personal pronouns===
Personal pronouns feature a distinction between three persons:
The personal pronouns are:


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| style="width: 100px;"| <center><small>''1<sup><small>st</small></sup> person''</small></center> || style="width: 70px;"| '''ɔn'''
| || colspan="2" | <center><small>''1<sup><small>st</small></sup> person''</small></center> || <center><small>''2<sup><small>nd</small></sup> person''</small></center> || colspan="3" | <center><small>''3<sup><small>rd</small></sup> person''</small></center>
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| <center><small>''2<sup><small>st</small></sup> person''</small></center> || '''eʂ'''
| style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''plural''</small></center> || style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''inclusive''</small></center> || style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''exclusive''</small></center> || style="width: 90px;"|  || style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''human''</small></center> || style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''animate''</small></center> || style="width: 90px;"| <center><small>''inanimate''</small></center>
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| <center><small>''3<sup><small>st</small></sup> person''</small></center> || '''uʈ'''
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Revision as of 04:44, 8 July 2025

Personal pronouns

The personal pronouns are:

1st person
2nd person
3rd person
plural
inclusive
exclusive
human
animate
inanimate

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

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

For the 1st plural person an alternative form is built, by merging the 1st singular person form with the 2nd 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 3st 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