> --You got the right idea. I found that having five
> vowels presented some convenient patterns, so I take
> advantage of that a lot. So my pronouns are:
>
> a--I
> e--you
> i--it/she/he
> o--we
> u--they
>
> The following are the reflexive forms, and are
> pronounced with a glottal stop in between.
> aa
> ee
> ii
> oo
> uu
>
> Other pronouns follow the same idea in a slightly
> more
> complicated fashion;
> masa
> mesa
> misa
> mosa
> musa
> are the posessive forms, and
> mana
> mena
> mina
> mona
> muna
> are the direct-object forms (can someone remind me
> of
> the proper term for that--I want to say
> "accusative",
> but that doesn't sound right.)
>
> There you go!
> Emesohaleka Yawehi--in case you want to know, I
> don't
> exactly have an imperative form. "Emesohaleka"
> literally translates you need to go:
> e
> (second-person sing)
> meso
> ("need")
> hale
> ("go")
> ka
> (present tense)
>
> Kalinida
>
> --- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:29:27 -0800 Clint Jackson
> > Baker
> > <litrex1@...> writes:
> > > Emesohaleka Yawehi (I just realized that I've
> been
> > > putting this in first person--amesohaleka--and
> not
> > > second. D'oh!)
> > > Clint
> > -
> >
> > So E is second person, and A is first?
> > What are the other persons/pronouns?
> >
> > Rokbeigalmki (which, to merge with your other
> post,
> > sounds like Arabic to
> > my brother - i don't know enough different
> languages
> > to characterize it
> > as specifically like any) has pronouns in A E I O
> U
> > and UH:
> >
> > az = i
> > ez = you
> > iz = she
> > oz = he
> > uz = it
> > uhz = 'singular they' (animate common/epicene)
> >
> > My first conlang, ool-Nuziiferoi, which i worked
> on
> > with my brother
> > around 7 years ago for a few months, had the same
> > pronouns (i borrowed
> > them for R. later) except with AAZ instead of UHZ.
> > The plural equivalents of the pronouns are made by
> > inserting a M between
> > the vowel and the Z. Rokbeigalmki (i don't
> remember
> > about ool-Nuziiferoi
> > at the moment) also has non-subject pronouns,
> which
> > are the same with the
> > Z replaced with a SH.
> >
> >
> > -Stephen (Steg)
> > "it is very blue and soft
> > like a big blue womb"
> > ~ a friend of mine describing her car
>
>
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