ciantwo class system

Having picked up Campbell's _Concise Compendium of the World's
Languages_ as an anniversary present, and read a bit about Bantu
classes, I decided I want to make a class-based language.

The language is Ciantwo, and it is spoken by a people who lived in
Atlantean times, in tree-house-towns.  They are very adept at
breeding/creating 'designer' plants and animals, and they have a
considerable technology based on that.  It doesn't particularly affect
the language except for the fact that certain plants and possibly even
animals will enter the 'human construct' class because of it, but it's
a bit of background.

This is my first draft of the class system:
(c= /tS/; j= /dZ/ ([which is phonemically distinct from dy=/dj/];
ds=/ds/=[dz]; y=/j/)

PRONOUN    CLITIC   OBVIATIVE  MEANING
 doen        de        je       PERSON
 soen        se        ce       PERSON-PLURAL
 dsuam       dsu      dsyu      ANIMAL
 suam        su        syu      ANIMAL-PLURAL
 wain        wa        --       PLANT
 toes        te        tye      CONSTRUCT
 tuas        tu        tyu      CONSTRUCT-PLURAL
 goen        ge        gwe      THING
 moen        me        ---      THING-PLURAL/STUFF
 kau         ka        kya      PLACE
 ki          ki        kwi      POINT

Notes:
CONSTRUCT is prototypically an object which humans have shaped for
their uses.
THING is anything that is not alive and not a CONSTRUCT.
STUFF is rather like English mass nouns: cheese, grain, anything not
thought of as structured and differentiated.
PLACE is a location thought of as a container -- something you can be
in.
POINT is a location thought of as a point -- someplace you can be at.

How's that sound for a start?

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