Khangaþyagon Pronouns

Khangaþyagon has few true pronouns, as the role of relative and interrogative pronouns is taken by nouns marked with modsegunakar. However, there have some important syntactical features.

As the direct object is not morphologically marked, the subject of a finite clause must always be explicitly represented, ie Khangaþyagon is not pro-drop.

Personal pronouns and obviation

Khangaþyagon's personal pronouns are

ya

1st person

ye

2nd person

yi

3rd person proximate

de

3rd person obviate

The third person proximate pronoun yi normally refers to the most discourse prominent 3rd person referent, which in most circumstances is the most recently stated subject. When it is necessary to refer to a different entity from the one to which yi would most obviously refer, the third person obviate pronoun de is used. When de is used as a subject, the verb is marked for the 3rd person, the same as for yi.

Obviation is only used to disambiguate references when they are both of the same grammatical number.

Reflexive pronoun

The pronoun ansidi (oneself) is used to refer back to the subject of the same clause, when it recurrs in a role other than the direct object.