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=====Demonstratives=====
=====Demonstratives=====


1) Pronominal demonstratives are listed in the table below; their possessive forms are parenthesised:
1) Adnominal demonstratives are suffixes attached to the noun as per the table below:


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
|Name  || Locus || Singular || Dual || Plural
|Name  || Locus || Suffix
|-
|-
| Proximal || Near speaker || qin (qinme-) || qik (qikme-) || qit (qitme-)
| Proximal || Near speaker || -nti
|-
|-
| Medial|| Near listener(s) || qun (qunme-) || quk (qukme-)|| qut (qutme-)
| Medial|| Near listener(s) || -ntu
|-
|-
| Distal || Away from speaker and listener(s) || qan (qanme-)|| qak (qakme-)|| qat (qatme-)
| Distal || Away from speaker and listener(s) || -nta
|}
|}


2) Pronominal demonstratives take case in the same manner as nouns.
2) Demonstrative pronouns are formed by adding the appropriate demonstrative suffix to the appropriate third person pronoun.
 
3) Adnominal demonstratives are formed by simply suffixing the appropriate pronominal demonstrative to the noun. The number indices of the demonstrative suffixes supersedes the nominal number suffixes in this case. Eg: kātuquk = those two cats


=====Emphatic Pronouns=====
=====Emphatic Pronouns=====