Definition:
He, she, it. new info
Function:
Third person nominative pronominal. Attach to the beginning of a verb.
Examples:
- iwačá ‘he/she/it was’;
- iwínaša pt̓íits ‘the girl is going’;
- iwiyánawiya wínš ‘the man arrived’;
- iwáp̓aša tílaaki ‘the woman is weaving’;
- iq̓ínuša wawúkyana ‘he/she sees the elk’;
- iq̓ínušaaš wawúkyanɨm ‘the elk sees me’;
- ku ipápaničɨnx̣ana ana mɨná ‘and they would bury one another anywhere’.
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pɨ́n (independent pronoun)
[NP /hi-/.]
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kʷa=
Indefinite, unknown. kʷapáyš tiičám isɨ́nwitat̓aša ‘wonder if the ground wants to speak’; inmíkni tilamíkni pawačá kʷamɨ́łman ‘on my grandfather’s side were how many?’; ana kʷamɨ́łpan anwíčtpa kúušx̣i iwačá k̓sɨ́t čáw táy máan wínatay ‘in however many years was it similarly so cold not for going anywhere?’; kʷamíš máan míš ašwaníyama áw pawínana ‘somehow the slaves went somewhere’; kʷɨ́ni mɨ́ł kʷapačwáywit ku patáˀɨnna kʷaaná wínšna ‘from there maybe a few weeks and they told that man’; aw míš kʷaˀáw ƛ̓áax̣ʷ kʷná mayní čáw pawɨ́šayča ‘or somehow now in some way they all passed away’.
pa-
Definition:
They new info
Function:
Third person plural nominative pronominal.
Examples:
- pawá ‘they are’;
- patk̓ítana ‘they will watch us’;
- pawáašax̣ana ‘they used to dance’;
- ku kúuk pattáwax̣ta naamí tkʷátat ‘and then our foods will grow’.
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[NP plural /pe-/ is nominative without sensitivity to person.]
Indefinite
kʷa= ‘unspecified, unknown’.
Unknown
kʷa= ‘indefinite, unspecified’.