Personal pronouns

• Emphatic
• Prefixes
• Inclusive

Personal Inclusive Pronouns

Observation

ᔖᔥ ᓂᒌ ᒦᒋᓲᓐ ᓀᔥᑕᓃ᙮

shaash nichii miichisuun neshtanii.

Me too, I ate already.

The pronoun ᓀᔥᑕᓃ neshtanii ‘me too’ indicates that a person is also included. To say that someone is also included, the following set of personal pronouns can be used:

Personal inclusive pronouns:

ᒉᔥᑕᒌ		cheshtachii	you too
ᓀᔥᑕᓃ		neshtanii	me too
ᒉᔥᑕᒌᐧᐋᐤ		cheshtachiiwaau	you all too
ᒉᔥᑕᒌᔮᓅ		cheshtachiiyaanuu	you and me too
ᓀᔥᑕᓃᔮᓐ		neshtaniiyaan	we too (but not you)
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄ		weshtawii	him/her too
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄᐧᐋᐤ		weshtawiiwaau	them too
ᐧᐁᔥᑕᐧᐄ (ᐅᐦᑖᐧᐄᐦ)		weshtawii (uhtaawiih)	his/her (father) too

The above forms are not used in all communities, they are only attested in the Inland dialect, and with elders. Younger people use ᓃ ᑲᔦ nii kaye or ᑲᔦ ᓃ kaye nii ‘me too’, i.e the set of emphatic personal pronouns with the particle kaye ‘also’. ᓀᔥᑕᓃ neshtanii should not be confused with ᓀᔥᑦ ᓃ nesht nii, ‘me too’, or where ᓀᔥᑦ nesht is a coordinating particle. [link particle nesht]