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HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — COOS 



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THE PRONOUN (§§96-100) 

 § 96. The Independent Personal Pronouns 



Coos has two sets of independent personal pronouns, formed from 

 two different stems. 



The first of these two sets is formed from the stem -xkan for the 

 first and second persons, and -xka for the third person, to which are 

 prefixed the personal pronouns (see § 18), giving the following series: 



The obscure vowel in nifxkan is due to the law of consonantic clus- 

 ters (see § 4). 



For the dropping of the glottal stop, inherent in the second person 

 singular, see § 3. 



The peculiar vowels in the third person singular may be the com- 

 bined effect of accent and of the dropping of the final n. 



It will be seen from this table that the singular forms are the basis 

 for the corresponding dual and plural forms. Thus, the inclusive is 

 formed by combining the inclusive pronoun is with the singular for 

 the first person nifxkan; the second person dual is composed of the 

 personal pronoun for the second person dual ic, and the singular for 

 the second person e'xkan; etc. 



These pronouns have the force of a whole sentence, and may be 

 translated by i (thou, he . . . ) am the one, who 



nifxlca/n JmuL la^ i^x'intl'yat ts xaP-p I will be the one to run 



away with that water 40.20, 21 

 K%s haiiL e'xkan yvxe^'e^k/vnnt also thou shalt be the one to shoot 



one (arrow) 13.1 



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