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Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns convey only the first two persons (1^st and 2^nd) in both numbers. Unlike nominal or adjectival roots, these root are monosyllabic.

They are declined with the same endings as the nominal declension, and select only the animate plural ending, as they refer always to animated entities.

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
singular			animate	inanimate
formal	õ	aɕ	ec	uk
informal	ɔ̃	eɕ	uc
plural			animate	inanimate
formal	õnõ	ɛɕɛɕ	ecec	uguk
informal	ɔ̃nɔ̃	eɕeɕ	ucuc

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

In the 3^rd person, a double distinction is made. There are, actually, two forms, referring respectively to either animated beings or inanimate entities.

In the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd animate persons an additional distinction is made between formal and informal forms. Formal pronouns are used in formal contexts, out of politeness, and are derived from former so-called royal pronouns, reserved for people with a higher social status in the earlier middle period. Over time, their usage have changed in a distinction of politeness / familiarity.

(Throughout this grammar in examples the informal forms are primarily used, since they are regarded as the most familiar in the spoken language.)

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

osã gö̃ vuɣner nuvɔ uc gü eʂeʂ
my father saw yours