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Subject: The language is Palaung!
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 13:37:29 -0500 (EST)
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I found the book (>Man's Many Voices<; see my posting on stylemes for
full information) where the language-with-11-pronouns was described.
It is Palaung, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Burma.  Here are the
actual pronouns (notation: 1=speaker, 2=listener, sg=singular, du=dual,
pl=plural, ~=not):

1+2sg: non-existent
1+2du: /ar/ 'thou and I'
1+2pl: /E/ 'thou and I and another'

1~2sg: /O/ 'I'
1~2du: /yar/ 'I and another'
1~2pl: /yE/ 'I and others'

2~1sg: /mi/ 'thou'
2~1du: /par/ 'thou and another'
2~1pl: /pE/ 'thou and others'

~1~2sg: /Un/ 'another'
~1~2du: /gar/ 'two others'
~1~2pl: /gE/ 'three or more others'

As you can see, the dual and plural forms are built from a single root with
/-ar/ added for dual and /E/ for plural; singular forms look unrelated.

-- 
John Cowan		sharing account <lojbab@access.digex.net> for now
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