Re: Gender
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 3:34 |
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:18:10 -0500, Muke Tever
<alrivera@...> wrote:
>Yep, and Dunamy has "i" /I/ which is anything in the third person, singular or
>plural.
>
> "Lafí i ara magas"
> /"l@fi I "@r@ "m@dZ@z/
>
> He/she/it/they love monkeys
Coincidentally, /i/ used to be the Tirelhat 3rd person pronoun. With the
recent changes, the independent pronouns in the nominative case all became
obsolete, and only the prefix /j@-/ and the accusative form /mi/ are still
used.
And Tirelhat used to not distinguish between singular and plural either.
Now I've got /v@-/ "they, their" and /ve/ "them" in contrast with the
singular /j@-/ "he, she, it, his, her, its" and /mi/ "him, her, it".
jë-mira-ja-n maj xhan (paghè, larpa, ...)
3s-love- ACC:PL capuchin (baboon, mangabey, ...)
vë-mira-ja-n maj xhan (paghè, larpa, ...)
3p-
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