Thulean: Difference between revisions
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===Demonstratives === | ===Demonstratives === | ||
1) Thulean has four demonstrative suffixes which encode the following distances: | |||
a) The proximal citerior which marks a person or object near the speaker. | |||
b) The distal citerior which marks a person or object near the addressee. | |||
c) The proximal ulterior which marks a person or object away from both speaker and addressee but within visual range. | |||
d) The distal ulterior which marks a person or object away from both speaker and addressee but outside visual range. | |||
2)The demonstrative suffixes are as follows: | |||
PROX CIT: -tsi | |||
DIST CIT: -psu | |||
PROX ULT: -the | |||
DIST ULT: -nja | |||
3) By attaching the demonstrative suffixes to personal pronouns a set of demonstrative pronouns can be created. Eg: | |||
minetsi = this thing | |||
tukenja = yon people out of sight | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||