Re: Pronouns or Names?

Rodlox R wrote:

>which would be more plausible?  (as a conlang or a natlang) ?...
>
>* a language with pronouns (he/she/it/they/you), but no personal names
>(Paul, Bill, Pedro, Joan).
>
>* a language with personal names, but no pronouns.
>
>thoughts?
A language without pronouns would be redundant if we have to name the person
every time

But I dont know witch way a language could not have any way to name the
people

So, for me, the most plausible would be the one without pronouns, it could
be like when we don't use any pronoun because it's obvious each time the
real name isn't used

But, maybe you think to avoid pronouns to represent the person with a suffix

In that case it's approximately the same thing than a pronoun so it's very
easy because I also begun to create a conlang without person marks except in
conjugaison...

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