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==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||
===Pronominal Open Class Words=== | ===Pronominal Open Class Words=== | ||
Dzetcavu doesn't have any official pronouns. Instead, titles or a person's name are used to refer to who is being spoken to or about. | Dzetcavu doesn't have any official pronouns. Instead, titles or a person's name are used to refer to who is being spoken to or about. The person that each title is under doesn't have to be used strictly in that person. | ||
{| {{Table/bluetable}} style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle" | {| {{Table/bluetable}} style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle" | ||
! Title | ! Title !! Formality !! Notes | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | !colspan="3"|First Person | ||
|- | |- | ||
|'' | |''xes'' || general || "speaker" used when one doesn't know the person or is speaking hypothetically | ||
|- | |- | ||
| || || || | !colspan="3"|Second Person | ||
|- | |||
|''bai'' || general || "audience" used when one doesn't know the person or is speaking hypothetically | |||
|- | |||
|''ines'' || informal || "acquaintance" | |||
|- | |||
|''bvīrtoc'' || private || "female-mate" || used to refer to a female companion that the speaker would or has reproduced with | |||
|- | |||
|''adjutoc'' || private || "male-mate" || used to refer to a male companion that the speaker would or has reproduced with | |||
|- | |||
!colspan="3"|Third Person | |||
|- | |||
|''tuct'' || general || "person" used when one doesn't know the person or is speaking hypothetically | |||
|- | |||
|''gois'' || general || "thing" best approximation of "it" and is used to anything without a consciousness including objects, and ideas | |||
|- | |||
|''īska'' || general || "thing" used to refer to anything with a consciousness such as people and animals | |||
|- | |||
|''epsī'' || general || "object" used to refer to some physical object | |||
|} | |} | ||