South Bougainville Languages - Pronouns

Pronouns

Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes:

I we you s/he, they
free *ni(ŋ) *nee DL
*ni PL		 *da SG
*dee DL
*dai PL		 *ba SG
*bee DL
*bai PL
patientive *-m *-d *-b
agentive *a *o *i or *e *u
SG: singular; DL: dual; PL: plural

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