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Due to a sound change, the 2nd person intransitive emphatic pronoun and the 1st person inclusive genitive alienable / ergative pronoun have become homophones. However, due to social norms, the 2nd person emphatic pronouns are very rarely used at all. So whenever /jṵ̀ː/ is heard, it can be assumed to be the emphatic form of the 1st person genitive alienable / ergative pronoun. | Due to a sound change, the 2nd person intransitive emphatic pronoun and the 1st person inclusive genitive alienable / ergative pronoun have become homophones. However, due to social norms, the 2nd person emphatic pronouns are very rarely used at all. So whenever /jṵ̀ː/ is heard, it can be assumed to be the emphatic form of the 1st person genitive alienable / ergative pronoun. | ||
===Alternate Second Person Pronouns=== | |||
In certain situations, alternate forms of the second person pronoun are used. There are a variety of these, depending on the situation: | |||
* /ˈɥômə̀/ - used by a cleric to a layperson | |||
* /ˈmʲṵ̂ːŋə̀/ - used by a senior cleric to refer to a junior cleric | |||
* /tɕə́ˈjṵ̂ːtèn/ - literally "student", used by a teacher to a student | |||
* /qə́ˈjâ̰tə̀/ - literally "child", used by an adult to a child | |||
* /wṳ̀ː/ - literally "wife", used by a husband to a wife | |||
* /ˈtfóʔɽə̀/ - used by men to slightly younger men (within a generation) that they know well | |||
* /ˈmóʔɽə̀/ - used by women to slightly younger women (within a generation) that they know well | |||
* /sˤâ̰ːnə̀/ - literally "son", used by an older person to much younger men | |||
* /ˈdóʔɽà/ - literally "daughter", used to much younger women | |||
* /wóˈmḛ̂/ - literally "slave", used to refer to slaves. | |||
Most of these are derived from nouns, and indeed they pattern like nouns, not prononus. Notably, they take ergative-absolutive marking (with the enclitic /-zə̀wə̀/ or /-ɽə̀wə̀/ used to mark ergative case) rather than tripartite marking. | |||