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 ==Pronouns==
+Esilienskú personal pronouns do not distinguish politeness or social hierarchy. Each grammatical person is represented by a single invariant form. Pronouns do not inflect for gender in the first or second person, while a limited gender distinction is preserved in the third person.
+Pronouns are not marked on the verb, as Esilienskú lacks subject–verb agreement.
+===Personal pronouns===
+Esilienskú distinguishes singular and plural forms, with an additional inclusive/exclusive distinction in the first-person plural.
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: center;"
+|+ Personal pronouns
+! Person !! Form
+|-
+! 1st singular
+| Es
+|-
+! 2nd singular
+| Tjú
+|-
+! 3rd masculine
+| Hír
+|-
+! 3rd feminine
+| Haia
+|-
+! 1st plural (inclusive)
+| Víð
+|-
+! 1st plural (exclusive)
+| Érus
+|-
+! 3rd plural
+| Húnar
+|}
+===Inclusivity distinction===
+The first-person plural distinguishes between inclusive and exclusive reference:
+* '''Víð''' includes the listener
+* '''Érus''' excludes the listener
+'''Examples:'''
+*'''Víð er kuppan ídaga.'''
+“We (including you) are shopping today.”
+*'''Érus er kuppan ídaga.'''
+“We (excluding you) are shopping today.”
+This distinction is fully grammatical and applies in all registers of the language.
+===Object pronouns (clitic forms)===
+Object pronouns are formed through the suffix '''-a''', which attaches directly to the base pronoun. These forms function as direct and indirect object markers and are not syntactically optional.
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: center;"
+|+ Object pronouns
+! Base !! Object form
+|-
+! Es
+| Míg ''(irregular)''
+|-
+! Tjú
+| Tjúa
+|-
+! Hír
+| Híra
+|-
+! Haia
+| Haina ''(irregular)''
+|-
+! Érus
+| Eusa
+|-
+! Húnar
+| Hunara
+|}
+===Possessive pronouns===
+Possessive forms are derived using the suffix '''-en''', which attaches to the base pronoun. These forms are used attributively and do not agree with the possessed noun.
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: center;"
+|+ Possessive pronouns
+! Base !! Possessive form
+|-
+! Es
+| mína ''(irregular)''
+|-
+! Tjú
+| Tjúen
+|-
+! Hír
+| Híren
+|-
+! Haia
+| Haien ''(irregular)''
+|-
+! Érus
+| Éusen
+|-
+! Húnar
+| Hunaren
+|}
+===Syntactic behavior===
+Pronouns in Esilienskú:
+* do not inflect for case beyond clitic derivation
+* do not trigger verb agreement
+* may appear in both subject and topicalized positions without morphological change
+Word order is the primary mechanism for distinguishing grammatical roles outside of object/possessive clitics.
+===Irregular forms===
+The first-person singular and third-person feminine possessive and object forms exhibit irregular morphology:
+* '''Es → míga / mína'''
+* '''Haia → Haina / Haien'''
+These forms are historically derived from older phonological reduction patterns but are synchronically irregular in the modern language.
+===Summary===
+Esilienskú pronouns form a closed system characterized by:
+* a single form per grammatical person (no politeness distinction)
+* a binary inclusivity distinction in the first-person plural
+* productive clitic derivation for object and possessive forms
+* limited irregularity restricted to first-person and feminine forms
 ==Compounding==
 ==Dreamform (-vyna / -vynin)==