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Paradigm Details:

Language: (mcr) Menya.

Family:

System Type: F

Source: Whitehead (2004).

Comment: "The third person forms are rarely used, relative to the demonstrative pronouns introduced below. The third dual form qe, which is identical to and probably and (sic) extended use of the second dual, has never been observed in the unmarked form [i.e. the form for core arguments, without case markers attached] but is used in the emphatic forms" (Whitehead 2004: 23).

Pronoun Paradigm:

	A	S	O	Poss.
1st (excl) Person Singular	ɲi	ɲi	ɲi	ŋqä
1st (excl) Person Dual	ye	ye	ye	yeqä
1st (excl) Person Plural	ne	ne	ne	neqä
1st (incl) Person Dual	ye	ye	ye	yeqä
1st (incl) Person Plural	ne	ne	ne	neqä
2nd Person Singular	si	si	si	tqä
2nd Person Dual	qe	qe	qe	qeqä
2nd Person Plural	he	he	he	hiqä
3rd Person Singular Gender 1	ki	ki	ki	kiqä
3rd Person Singular Gender 2	ki	ki	ki	kiqä
3rd Person Dual	qe	qe	qe	qeqä
3rd Person Plural	qu	qu	qu	quwqä