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Tbirei person, lie or Slie. 



dau, He or she may, can, &c. 



dau gee, He or she may haAC, can have, &c. 



In conjugating tlie verbs through the plural person, the singu- 

 lar terms for the pronoun remain, and they are rendered plural 

 by a retrospective action of the pronominal inflections of the 

 verb. In this manner the pronoun- verb auxiliary has a general 

 application, and the necessity of double forms is avoided. 



The preceding observations are confined to the formative or 

 prefixed pronouns. The inseparable suffixed or subformative are 

 as follows : — 



Yaun, My. 



Yun, Thy. 



Id or d, His or hers. 



Yaung, Our. (ex.) 



Yung, Our. (in.) 



Yaig, Your. 



Waud, Their. 



These pronouns are exclusively employed as suffixes, and as 

 suffixes to the descriptive compound substantives, adjectives, and 

 verbs. Both the rule and examples have been stated under the 

 head of the substantives, p. 463, and adjectives, p. 492. Their 

 application to the verb will be shown as we proceed. 



2. Relative Pronouns. — In a language which provides for the 

 distinction of person by particles prefixed or suffixed to the verb, 

 it will scarcely be expected that separate and independent relative 

 pronouns should exist, or if such are to be found, their use, as sepa- 

 rate parts of speech, must, it will have been anticipated, be quite 

 limited ; limited to simple interrogatory forms of expression, and 

 not applicable to the indicative or declaratory. Such will be 

 found to be the fact in the language under review ; and it will be 

 perceived from the subjoined examples, that in all instances re- 

 quiring the relative pronoun ivho^ other than the simple interro- 

 gatory forms, this relation is indicated by the inflections of the 

 verb, or adjective, &c. Nor does there appear to be any declen- 

 sion of the separate pronoun corresponding to ivhose and ivhom. 



The word Ahwaynain^ may be said to be uniformly employed 

 in the sense of who, under the limitations we have mentioned. 

 For instance — 



