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Personal pronouns

The personal pronouns are:

1st person
2nd person
3rd person
singular
animate
inanimate
ɔn
ug
plural
inclusive
exclusive
animate
inanimate
ɔneʂ
ɔnɔn
eʂeʂ
uʈuʈ
ugug

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

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

For the 1st 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 preposition gü, 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.

vuɣner nuʔ ɽanʔan gü eʂeʂ hosʔan gü ɔn
my father saw your mother
vuɣner nuʔ uʈ gü eʂeʂ hosʔan gü ɔn
my father saw yours