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We find, however, in Koryak, the pronoun also used in oblique 

 cases to express own: 



gii'mkin tini'nkina with my own. 

 Personal pronouns have also definite, augmentative and diminutive 

 forms, which take the sufiix -onaiolh following the possessive form 

 of the pronoun. 



gumvk-onaiolh-ith-e-um big I 

 These forms are used in jesting, in children's play, etc. 



Demonstrative and Interrogative {Ttideftnite) Pronouns 



(§§ 57-58) 



§ 57. PARTICLES AND ABSOLUTE FORMS 

 The idea of position is expressed with great nicet3^ and in Chukchee 

 there are nine terms expressing the position of an object in relation to 

 the speaker. In Koryak there are only five, and in Kamchadal I have 

 found only two. The exact relation to the speaker is not quite clear 

 in all of these. In Chukchee the independent form of all of these is 

 formed by the suffix -qan (with n belonging to the suffix); only one 

 has the ending -(jin. In Koryak a few have the corresponding, endings 

 -Tcin^ -qen^ -qala'lcen. 



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