Sangi/Pronouns

=Pronouns=

Personal Pronouns
There are seven classes of personal pronoun in Sangi; simple, emphatic, honorific, informal, desirative, highly informal (or insultive) and reflexive.

These are all declined according to the rules of nouns. Each one of these pronouns can also be suffixed to a noun to form a level effect similar to the Japanese and Korean systems of honorifics.

Demonstrative Pronouns
There are three demonstrative pronouns; tir (this), ta (that) and tana (that over there). Each one is declined as if it were a noun or an adjective depending on its use.

Temporal Pronouns
There are also three temporal pronouns; nú (now), núrá (then, sometime in the past), núria (then, sometime in the future). The past and future pronouns must be follwed by the definite article to mean “then” specifically because they are indefinite by default)

Spacial Pronouns
The spacial pronouns are i (here), te (there) and tena (over there).

Interrogative Pronouns
The interrogative pronouns are u (how), o (who, what), á (why), ven (when), ve (where), ol (what, what happened), vit (which). There is also a particle, cwa, which is clause final and turns a statement into a question. When pit takes the definite article it means “which one”.

Relative Pronouns
To create relative pronouns from interrogatives, replace the initial v-/Ø- with j-. To create then using demonstrative pronouns replace the initial t- with di-.

Indefinite Pronouns
The indefinite pronouns are formed by suffixing the indefinite suffixes onto the words man- (-body), an- (-one), tin- (-thing), ier- (place), tám- (-time[s]). To create the negative indefinite pronouns the suffix taken is -[i]ne.