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Numbers

Cardinal numerals are placed in the same syntactical position as other quantifiers, but they cannot head a noun phrase and are thus always preceded by a determiner. Ordinal numerals behave like nouns syntactically.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
unit na'o ta'o ha'o ma'o ya'o tsa'o ka'o pa'o sa'o ue'o
x10 x x x x x x x x x x
ordinal kina'o kita'o kiha'o kima'o kiya'o kitsa'o kika'o kipa'o kisa'o kiue'o


Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns in --- inflect for three cases (nominative, accusative, and possessive), and have an animacy distinction in the 3rd person (more or less along the line of human vs. non-human). Note that the paradigm of the possessive pronouns is defective, with a number distinction existing only in the first person.

nominative accusative possessive
1sg e ə axe
2sg lɛñɔ lɛño adɔ
3sg anim. loru luru ayru
3sg inan. loyo luño ah
1pl wi aymɛ
2pl wɛñɔ wɛño adɔ
3pl anim. wəru waru ayru
3pl inan. wayo waño ah

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Buruya_Nzaysa