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