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-| '''chal'''
+| chal
-||'''cham'''
+||cham
-||'''chā'''<ref>Etymological reference to ''chātturrarri'' ‘second brother’; indicates friendship or friendliness.</ref>
+||chā<ref>Etymological reference to ''chātturrarri'' ‘second brother’; indicates friendship or friendliness.</ref>
-||'''char'''
+||char
-||'''chāh'''<ref>Though similar in sound to ''chā'', this is an etymological reference to ''laichāh'', the yellow shadow from the red sun; indicates compliance.</ref>
+||chāh<ref>Though similar in sound to ''chā'', this is an etymological reference to ''laichāh'', the yellow shadow from the red sun; indicates compliance.</ref>
 |align=left valign=top| first person singular, ‘I’
 |-
-|colspan=2|'''kit'''
+|colspan=2|kit
-||'''kāl'''
+||kāl
-||'''kālli'''
+||kālli
-||'''chit'''<ref>Etymological reference to ''chitir'', the red shadow from the yellow sun, indicates truculence.</ref>
+||chit<ref>Etymological reference to ''chitir'', the red shadow from the yellow sun, indicates truculence.</ref>
 |align=left valign=top| second person singular ‘you’
 |-
-| '''yun'''
+| yun
-|| '''yumi'''
+|| yumi
-|| '''yun'''
+|| yun
-||'''yunum'''
+||yunum
-||'''yunīllah'''
+||yunīllah
 |align=left valign=top| third person singular animate ‘he / she’<ref>There is no gender distinction in the third person pronouns, though there is a distinction between animate (“he/she”) and inanimate (“it”).</ref>
 |-
-|colspan=5| '''wih'''
+|colspan=5| wih
 |align=left valign=top| third person singular inanimate ‘it’
 |-
-| '''kichal'''
+| kichal
-|| '''kicham'''
+|| kicham
-|| '''-'''<ref>There is not a single pronoun to represent this idea; instead it is rendered simply as ''chā ha kāl'' ‘I and you’.</ref>
+|| -<ref>There is not a single pronoun to represent this idea; instead it is rendered simply as ''chā ha kāl'' ‘I and you’.</ref>
-||'''chakrālli'''<ref>Metathesis of ''char''+''kālli'', because /rk/ is not a legal intrasyllabic sequence.</ref>
+||chakrālli<ref>Metathesis of ''char''+''kālli'', because /rk/ is not a legal intrasyllabic sequence.</ref>
-||'''jachīt'''
+||jachīt
 |align=left valign=top| first person dual inclusive ‘you and I, we’<ref>The first person dual inclusive pronoun (“you and I”) is optional; there is not a plural inclusive, and all other first person non-singular roles are assumed by the first person plural, whether inclusive or exclusive.</ref>
 |-
-| '''jāla'''
+| jāla
-|| '''jahla'''
+|| jahla
-|| '''jal'''
+|| jal
-||'''jālinum'''
+||jālinum
-||'''jahla'''
+||jahla
 |align=left valign=top| first person plural, ‘we’
 |-
-| '''gīs'''
+| gīs
-|| '''gīt'''
+|| gīt
-|| '''gillā'''
+|| gillā
-||'''gailinūh'''
+||gailinūh
-||'''gīt'''
+||gīt
 |align=left valign=top| second person plural, ‘you (all)’
 |-
-|colspan=3| '''yaum'''
+|colspan=3| yaum
-|| '''yaunūh'''<ref>“They who are my parents/mentors/teachers.”</ref>
+|| yaunūh<ref>“They who are my parents/mentors/teachers.”</ref>
-|| '''yaunīllah'''<ref>“They who are my children/students.”</ref>
+|| yaunīllah<ref>“They who are my children/students.”</ref>
 |align=left valign=top| third person plural animate, ‘they’
 |-
-|colspan=5| '''waih'''
+|colspan=5| waih
 |align=left valign=top| third person plural inanimate, ‘they, those things’<ref>As with the third person singular, there is an animacy distinction in the third person plural (both rendered as ‘they’ in English). No registers are used with inanimate pronouns.</ref>
 |}