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1) Pronominal demonstratives are believed to derive from the 3rd, 4th and 5th person pronouns and ken, the single demonstrative of Old Yamilhiq.
1) Pronominal demonstratives are believed to derive from the 3rd, 4th and 5th person pronouns and ken, the single demonstrative of Old Yamilhiq.


2) The locus of demonstration of each of these are displayed in the table below:
2) The demonstratives are displayed in the table below:


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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|Distance||Abbreviation||Locus||SG|| PC|| PL ||
|Distance||Abbreviation||Locus Of Application||SG|| PC|| PL ||
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| Proximal|| PROX||Near speaker|| tikin||tukkun||tatkan
| Proximal|| PROX||Near speaker|| tikin||tukkun||tatkan
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3) Adnominal demonstratives are formed by postposing the appropriate demonstrative after the noun and its qualifying string. This is seldom done for core arguments except for emphasis.
3) Adnominal demonstratives are formed by postposing the appropriate demonstrative directly after the noun. This is seldom done for core arguments except for emphasis.


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