Re: Fourth Person

I do not know about Haida. But I have studied one language that has four
grammatical persons: Aymara.
Here is the way I see the Aymara grammatical persons.
0. jupa -- he, it she, they.
1. naya -- I, we (but not you).
2. juma -- you.
3. jiwasa -- we (including you).

Plurals are added as infixes to nouns and verbs.
person 3=person 1+person 2.
person x=person x+person 0 (voila, the plural)

Tom Wier said.
> I've been wondering about something recently:  is it possible for languages
> to have a fourth person?  I heard that some native American language somewhere
> like in New York State or something had one (Haida?), but don't remember the
> details.  In any event, I wonder whether that would be something equivalent to
> the use of "one" in English or "man" in German.
--
vay' DaSovbe'bogh DaqellaHbe', 'ach DuHoHlaH vay'vam.
lete djuno befidocuse terpa dogi'e catru do
in ahmo ticmati ca ahhuel mitzahmana ca huel mitzmictia
What you don't know you can't worry about, but it can kill you.

mughtej jIH
co'omi'exe fanva tadni
nehhuatl nitlatolcuepamatini
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