Eastern Trans-Fly Languages - Pronouns

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Eastern Trans-Fly are,

I	*ka	exclusive we	*ki
		inclusive we	*mi
thou	*ma	you	*we
he/she/it	*tabV; e	they	*tepi

There's a possibility of a connection here to Trans–New Guinea. If the inclusive pronoun is historically a second-person form, then there would appear to be i-ablaut for the plural: *ka~ki, **ma~mi, **tapa~tapi. This is similar to the ablaut reconstructed for TNG (*na~ni, *ga~gi). Although the pronouns themselves are dissimilar, ablaut is not likely to be borrowed.

On the other hand, there is some formal resemblance to Austronesian pronouns (*(a)ku I, *(ka)mu you, *kita we inc., *(ka)mi we exc., *ia he; some archeological, cultural and linguistic evidence of Austronesian contact and settlement in the area exists.