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Nungma, nunga, nung or na, thine. 

 Ama, or A, his, hers, or its. 

 An emphatic form of the pronoun is the same as the genitive, 

 thus — 



Keima, I myself. Nungma, thou thyself. 



Ama, he himself 

 The first personal pronoun has a post position for the dative and 

 accusative case peculiar to itself, thus — 



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He beat one, Hipan kei ei denge. 



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Let me see, or show me, .... Kei ei vet sain. 



In other respects, the pronouns are declined exactly as nouns. 



Certain verbs require a final n in their nominatives, and when the 



personal pronouns are subjected to this influence, they become, 



Kin, 1. Keihdn, We. 



Nungin, Thou. Nunghon, Ye. 



Hipan, Re. Hihon, They. 



The demonstrative pronouns are simply 



Hi, this. Hti, that. 



sometimes the word is doubled to make the demonstration more 



palpable, as — 



Hihi, this. Hrihu, that. 



But it would seem that these pronouns admit of no plural. 



The interrogative pronouns are Koi, which stands for who and 



which, and i what — one marked peculiarity in this language is, that 



wherever an interrogation is made, it is required that the clause or 



sentence in which it is contained, should end in a final M. This is 



effected by adding em, um, or simply m, to the verb which closes 



the sentence, thus — " It is a man,'* is simply Mi ahi, but 



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Is it a man / becomes Mi ahium ? 



and in the same manner 



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Where do you live ? Nung hoya naumem ? 



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Who gave this ? Koi min ape em ? 



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Why did you do this ? Nung idinga nabdlem ? 



