| | I've been working on Proto-Polynesian, which is usually pretty straightforward, but it's getting harder. Would you mind taking a look at [[User:Metaknowledge/Proto-Polynesian personal pronouns]]? The fact that no extant Polynesian language that I'm aware of still has the trial made this a little hard, because the old trial forms replaced the plurals, and thus the plurals are basically guesswork. Thanks! --[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 00:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC) | | I've been working on Proto-Polynesian, which is usually pretty straightforward, but it's getting harder. Would you mind taking a look at [[User:Metaknowledge/Proto-Polynesian personal pronouns]]? The fact that no extant Polynesian language that I'm aware of still has the trial made this a little hard, because the old trial forms replaced the plurals, and thus the plurals are basically guesswork. Thanks! --[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 00:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC) |
| | + | :I don't have my books on PPN around anymore, so I'm not sure. I think the 1st person singular is also divided into inclusive and exclusive. I think there were already different dialects of PPN after it separated from PAN, and I'm not sure about the range of possibilities in pronouns. I would think the 1st-person singular inclusive would be at least *aku, if not *i-aku; and that the 1st-person singular exclusive would be *ta or *ita. I'm pretty sure these have been reconstructed, but I don't have the resources to see. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] <sup>([[User talk:Stephen G. Brown|Talk]])</sup> 04:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC) |
