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Bear with me, guys, this is the first in a series of questions I'm posting (which I'm posting separately, because besides their relation to Romance languages, are unrelated)... I'm feeling inquisitive. :-P Is there any evidence that some Romance languages retained the third person pronouns "is" and "ea?" I know I've seen Italian dialects that have the feminine pronoun "ea," but looking at their masculine counterparts, it typically looks like that may just be a mutated version of "illa" that lost the lateral. I'm aware that Spanish contains demonstrative pronouns "eso" and "ésto"-- perhaps "eso" is a derivation from "is"? It seems to fit the vowel shift of unstressed 'i' to 'e'. What I'm curious to see, though, are 'is' and 'ea' used as they were used in CL... even better, are there any conlangs that retain these usages? Just some morbid curiosity-- I'm toying with the idea of doing this myself in my own conlang... I'm sure I'll decide that regardless of the answers, but a guy can still be curious, yeah? :-)