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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.
direct1	òtu	étu	àtu	òtun	étun	àtun
direct2	jə	nə	àt	jən	nən	àtən
gen.-dat.	òture	éture	àture	òtunore	étunore	àtunore
instrumental			àtuxa			àtunoxa
locative			àtusah			àtunosah

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.