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Third-person pronouns.



So 'da' has come to be the 'one' element of this one, that one, etc, while
serving as a default 3rd person pronoun.  However!  I fully intend to follow
the Loglan idea of a set of pronouns that work this way.

To pamo pa ten ta gun sta to dom.  Go ten g do.  G bu sta d.  P do bu ten g.
the father had a gun in the house.  I have it now.   It isn't in it.  He now
doesn't have it.

In short, a word that begins with consonant X is denoted by the pronoun X.

There will be fourteen such pronouns:
b c d f g h j k p s t v x z
The question is, how are these letters pronounced?  I'm inclined to think we
should have maximum redundancy, but be monosyllabic.  baw, cay, dey, foy,
guy, hya, jye , kyo, pyu, swe, twi, vwo, xwu, zyaw.  Maybe.
Or not go for that and simply have.  buy, cuy, duy... figuring on the 'uy'
diphthong having mimimal use elsewhere.

Suggestions?


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