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Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns display a marked dichotomy between the forms for the ergative case and the forms for the absolutive case.

The first two persons (1^st and 2^nd) have indeed two different roots, exhibiting thus a mixed declension. On the other hand, the 3^rdperson has only one root, displaying, however, a similar declension.

	1st sing.	2nd sing.	3rd sing.	1st plur.	2nd plur.	3rd plur.
ergative	oltəw	ertəw	ət́lo	oltəwno	ertəwno	ət́lono
absolutive	jo	nə	ət́	jono	nəno	ət́no
genitive	jora	nəra	ət́ra	jorano	nərano	ət́rano
dative	joxə	nəxə	ət́əxə	joxəno	nəxəno	ət́əxəno
causative	joxəw	nəxəw	ət́əxəw	joxəwno	nəxəwno	ət́əxəwno
abessive			ət́əgiəl			ət́əgiəlno

First and second person forms are meant as referents for class I entities; the endings for the secondary oblique cases are thus not used with them. Conversely, the third person forms display a complete declension, in which the case forms are used whether the referred name belongs to the class I or class II.

In most oblique cases in the third person an euphonic vowel -ə- is inserted between the root and the case endings.