Re: "two be"

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
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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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