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Grayis personal pronouns are divided into five categories which may be considered registers of formality, though rather than describing hierarchical relationships, they are determined by the familial and educational relationships between the speakers. | Grayis personal pronouns are divided into five categories which may be considered registers of formality, though rather than describing hierarchical relationships, they are determined by the familial and educational relationships between the speakers. | ||
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!width="150"| Equal !!width="150"| Family !!width="150"| Stranger / Neutral !!width="150"| Teacher / Parent !!width="150"| Student / Child | !width="150"| Equal !!width="150"| Family !!width="150"| Stranger / Neutral !!width="150"| Teacher / Parent !!width="150"| Student / Child | ||
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|align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Equal''' register is used with friends, acquaint-ances, coworkers, and others you interact with regularly who do not fall into any of the other categories. This is the “default” formality re-gister in Grayis.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Family''' register is similar to the Equal re-gister, except that it denotes that the listener is a member of the speaker’s family.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Stranger''' register is used with anyone whom the speaker does not know personally.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Teacher''' register is used when addressing teachers, parents, men-tors, sometimes grand-parents.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Student''' register is used when addressing students, the speaker’s own children or grand-children, or anyone who is being taught, trained, or mentored by the speaker. | |align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Equal''' register is used with friends, acquaint-ances, coworkers, and others you interact with regularly who do not fall into any of the other categories. This is the “default” formality re-gister in Grayis.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Family''' register is similar to the Equal re-gister, except that it denotes that the listener is a member of the speaker’s family.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Stranger''' register is used with anyone whom the speaker does not know personally.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Teacher''' register is used when addressing teachers, parents, men-tors, sometimes grand-parents.</small> ||align="justify" valign="top"| <small>The '''Student''' register is used when addressing students, the speaker’s own children or grand-children, or anyone who is being taught, trained, or mentored by the speaker. | ||