| Language: | Suena |
| Feature: | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns by Johannes Helmbrecht |
| Value: | Binary politeness distinction |
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ni |
2nd sg. fam. |
- 2nd sg familiar pronoun; - /-to/ is the regular dual marker; /-kare/ is the regular plural marker |
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nima |
2nd sg. hon. |
- 2nd sg honorific pronoun; - morphologically, the 2nd sg pronoun ni is combined with the honorific vocative word –ma; /-to/ is the regular dual marker; /-kare/ is the regular plural marker; - in Suena, in-laws are taboo, avoidance expressions have to be used instead to address them, something like 'here comes the honoured person' |
|
nimakare |
2nd pl. hon. |
- notes see nima |
|
nimato |
2nd pl. hon. |
- 2nd dual honorific pronoun |