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====Independent Pronouns==== | ====Independent Pronouns==== | ||
The independent pronouns show a consistent ergative-absolutive pattern, identifiable by the suffix ''-du'' attached to the absolutive form of the pronoun. The suffix is derived from the Minhast ergative clitic ''=de'', incorporated into the language sometime during the Wolf Speaker invasions of the mid 1800's. This coincided with the rearrangement of the verbal system and shift from its original nominative-accusative alignment to its present-day | The independent pronouns show a consistent ergative-absolutive pattern, identifiable by the suffix ''-du'' attached to the absolutive form of the pronoun. The suffix is derived from the Minhast ergative clitic ''=de'', incorporated into the language sometime during the Wolf Speaker invasions of the mid 1800's. This coincided with the rearrangement of the verbal system and shift from its original nominative-accusative alignment to its present-day morphosyntactic alignment. | ||
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! Ergative | ! Ergative | ||
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| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"| | ||
| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"| | ||
| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"| | ||
| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"| | ||
| style="text-align:center | | style="text-align:center"|gudu | ||
| style="text-align:center"|gordu | |||
| style="text-align:center" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|yesu | | style="text-align:center" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|yesu | ||
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| style="text-align:center"|umu | | style="text-align:center"|umu | ||
| style="text-align:center"|jor | | style="text-align:center"|jor | ||
| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"|e | ||
| style="text-align:center"| | | style="text-align:center"|nu | ||
| style="text-align:center"|gu | | style="text-align:center"|gu | ||
| style="text-align:center"|gor | | style="text-align:center"|gor | ||
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! Accusative | ! Accusative | ||
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| gor | | gor | ||
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| norji | |||
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