262 K. B. Shaw— A Grammar of the Language [No. 3, 
Ex.: Muhammad-ning din A hamah din-lar-ning ulugh-i = Muhammad’s 
Faith (is) the great (est) of all Faiths. 
Bu hamah-si-ning chung-i — (lit.) “ This (is) the big(gest) of all of 
them” ; or as we should say: “ This is the biggest”. 
Hamah at-lar-ning yakhshi-si alip-kel = (lit.) “ Bring the best of all 
the horses, i. e. “ Bring the best horse.” 
The Diminutive is formed by the affix gliana (both the gh and the 
first a being subject to Phonetic variation). 
Ex. : kichik-kina — tiny little. 
khush-ghana = rather happy. 
THE PRONOUN. 
The Personal Pronouns are, in the Singular : man = I, san (or sen) 
— thou, ul — he, she or it ; and in the Plural: biz (or bizlar) — we, siz 
(or sizlar) = you, ular (for ul-lar) — they. 
JST. B. —As, in polite conversation, the forms biz and siz are often used 
with reference to a single person (like our wordyuit), the other forms bizlar , 
sizlar are employed, when there might be a doubt, to denote plurality. 
These pronouns receive the affixes of the different cases exactly in the 
same way as substantives do [Substs. Sec. b.~\ 
Ex. : Nom. man . I 
Gen. man-ning or maning .of me 
Dat. man-ga .to me 
Acc. man-ni or mani .me 
Loc. man-da .in me 
Ael. man-din .from me, &c., and the others in like manner. 
However, the 3rd Person Singular changes the l into an n before the 
Gen., Dat., and Loc. affixes, and before the Abl. affix din , viz., un-ning 
or uning , un-ga , un-ni or uni , un-da , un-din (instead of ul-ning , ul-ga , 
&c.). Before birla and some other post-positions, it takes the Gen. form 
viz., uning birla — “ with him (in the unity of him).”* 
In the oblique cases an is often used for un ; as aning instead of uning . 
The Possessive Pronouns are simply the Personal Pronouns with 
the genitive affix, viz.— 
Maning — my ; saning = thy; uning or aning — his or her; biz-ning 
or biz-lar-ning — our; siz-ning or siz-lar-ning = your ; ular-ning 
= their. 
* In speaking of persons, the genitive of this pronoun is generally used before any 
of the post-positions, e. g., uning-ga = to him (instead of un-ga) ; uning-din for un-din 
[not with the Acc. post-pos., however]. Compare Vambery’s “ Uigurische Sprach-monu- 
mcnte”, p. 35, where a similar rule is mentioned as prevailing in the ancient tongue of 
Uigurs. The same also sometimes takes place with man and san (I and thou). 
