Re: rinya pronouns

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:03:08PM +0100, daniel andreasson wrote:
[snip]
> Today at lunch I came up with the pronominal paradigm of one
> of the dialects of Rinya. This made me realize that I probably
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>       1SG              1PL
>       OLD      NEW     OLD      NEW
> AGT   imin     imï     ymin     ymï
Hmm. I always thought that near a nasal consonant, vowels are always
(unconsciously) nasalized? (Unless you're saying it quite slowly, of
course.) Or is that just a phenomenon in some languages, not all?

> PAT   im       ï       ym       ÿ
Cool! Roundedness differentiates between singular and plural. I like that
idea :-) (Umm... assuming your /y/ is [y] of course.)

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>       2SG             2PL
>       OLD      NEW    OLD      NEW
> AGT   lin      lï     lyn      lÿ
Interesting. In my mothertongue, [li] is the 2SG pronoun, though it has
mutated into [lu] around the time of my father's generation.

[snip]
> In summary:
>
>       1SG  1PL     2SG  2PL         3SG   3PL
> AGT   imï  ymï     lï   lÿ          utï   ytï
Hmm. Your 1st person pronouns look very similar to my conlang's 1SG
pronouns:

        Masc.           Fem.            Epi./Neut.
Org.    e'b0 [?&bA]     `yb0' [ybA]     ib0'    [?ibA]
Rcp.    e'bu [?&bu]     `ybu' [ybu]     ibu'    [?ibu]
Instr.  e'ba [?&ba]     `yba' [yba]     iba'    [?iba]
Cvy.    e'b3 [?&bV"]    `yb3' [ybV"]    ib3'    [?ibV"]
Loc.    e'bi [?&bi]     `ybi' [ybi]     ibi'    [?ibi]

(There are no first person plural pronouns in my conlang, so I can't
compare them.)


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