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Pronouns



This morning I decided to make a radical departure from the Romance norm with my C-a pronouns.  Previously the third person pronouns had been el/al/il and els/als/ils (also tried su/sa/si and eju/eja/eji) in singular and plural respectively.  This made the feminine and neuter third person pronouns identical with the articles.  It also gave the language a dash of Catalan flavor.
 
I sorta liked that, but this morning, for some reason (again maybe the cold medicine) I decided that those simply aren't the pronouns that Carrajena uses.  The new pronouns are jun/jan/jid and juns/jans/jids.  These, like the previous pronons, supposedly derive from "ille" -- most likely the accusative forms rather than the nominative and with probable contamination from the accusatives of "is".
 
Currently the prononuns are as follows:
 
ju = I
tu = you (inf)
vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
jun = he
jan = she
jid = it
 
nos = we
tus = you (inf pl)
vosus /-as = you (formal pl m/f)
juns/jans/jids = they
 
Comments?