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3) Personal pronouns take case in the same manner as nouns.
3) Personal pronouns take case in the same manner as nouns.


=====Demonstratives=====
=====Demonstrative Pronouns=====


1) These are identical to the 3rd, 4th and 5th person pronouns.
1) Pronominal demonstratives are identical to the 3rd person pronouns.


2) The locus of demonstration of each of these are displayed in the table below:
2) The locus of demonstration of each of these are displayed in the table below:
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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
|Name  || Locus || English Equivalent
|Pronoun Type  || Locus || English Equivalent
|-
|-
| 3rd person|| Near speaker ||this, these
| 3rd Person Proximal|| Near speaker ||this, these
|-
|-
| 4th person|| Near hearer|| that, those
| 3rd Person Medial|| Near hearer|| that, those
|-
|-
|5th person||Away from speaker and hearer||yon
|3rd Person Distal||Away from speaker and hearer||yon
|}
|}


3) Adnominal demonstratives are formed by suffixing the appropriate 3rd, 4th or 5th person pronoun to the noun. This is seldom done for core arguments except for emphasis.
3) Adnominal demonstratives are formed by suffixing the appropriate 3rd person pronoun to the noun. This is seldom done for core arguments except for emphasis.


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