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we - - whah 
you - nnheay 
they - - amay 
Me is generally reduplicate before verbs, as " me me yay," 1 eat. 
Boh before verbs generally suffers aphseresis as " oh yay," thou 
eatest, but sometimes not, as " hoh fai," thou doest : this is also 
the case with Iheh as " heh yay, Iheh fai," Me is added, as met 
in Latin, to make these pronouns compound. In Fantee the per- 
sonal pronouns are 
I - - me 
thou - awaw 
he, she, it narra 
we - yarra 
you - awoo 
they - warra; 
the latter is used as a possessive pronoun also ; woodde is affixed 
to make them compound; they are irregularly contracted before 
verbs. Considering these barbarous languages of primitive sim- 
plicity, and recollecting the original and philosophical deduction 
of pronouns from verbs, by the Greek professor of Glasgow, as g«y« 
or eywv (which is the more ancient) from x&<ym, ipse from gTrw, I par- 
ticularly enquired for verbs resembling their pronouns ; but, after 
a long and dihgent recollection, neither of my authorities could 
furnish me with any to the point. It is curious to observe, that the 
me represents the pronoun I, in both these rude languages,* as it 
does, though not in the nominative case, in most other primi- 
tive languages, and in the modern ones derived from them : it 
would seem to be the natural and involuntary expression for that 
pronoun. 
There is only an active voice in the Accra or Fantee ; the pas- 
* It is also found in the Erapoonga, and other African languages. 
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