Re: Ethnologue

En réponse à "Karapcik, Mike" <KarapcM@...>:

>
>         Hi,
>         I've seen "ri" before, but never saw a good definition. What are
> ri,
> jxi, and sxli?
Epicene forms of the 3rd person pronoun, to be used instead of "li" and "sxi"
in order not to have to precise the gender of the person you're talking about.

 Are there other pronouns that are neologisms?

I knew only "ri" and "sxli" personally, "jxi" is a new one for me (and not a
good one: too close to "gxi", the neuter pronoun. It's bad enough already that
they all end in -i). I also know the neologism "isxi": 3rd person plural
feminine (made according to the principle "li" - "ili").

>         (Also, wasn't "ri" the pronoun for "he" in the original release
> of
> Esperanto, later replaced by "li", making "ri" an indeterminate
> "s/he"?)
>
Maybe in the notes of Zamenhof, but in the first release the 3rd person
pronouns were "li", "sxi" and "gxi". There was no "ri".

Christophe.

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