Óskar wrote:
> A system I've often toyed with, especially for my more practically
intended
> languages, goes like this: there are forms only for the three persons; it
> is possible to combine the forms with each other, or numerals (which would
> include a "plural" numeral ">2"), so that to express 1p dual inclusive,
> one'd say "ego tu"
This is common in various pidgins and creols. Torres
Strait Creole has:
1SG = mi
1DL INCL = yumi
1PL INCL = yumipla
2SG = yu
2PL = yupla
etc.
where "pla" comes from "fellow" and indicates plural.
||| daniel
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