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6.	numeral eg. pongo
	‘five’	opongohi	__	__
				lopongotahi

Remote inter-locutor deictic pronoun

Remote interlocutor-remote deictic pronouns, statistically infrequent, are exposed in terms of the phonetic saymbolism of length, the first syllable being longer than that of the proximate interlocutor-remote pronoun, or as with some speakers, of tone, the first syllable being spoken on a higher tone than that of the proximate interlocutor-remote pronoun.

			singular	dual	plural
		base form	loi	lohi)i	lokhrui
					lotai
					lotakhrui

1.		ta
		‘kind’	lotai	lotahi)i	lotai
					lotakhrui

2.		-na
		inanimate or	lonai	__	*lonakhrui
		material entity			lonatai
		and hum. masc.			lonatakhrui
					lonatakhrumüii

3.		-püi
		hum. fem.	lopüii	lopüihi)i(??)	__

4.		-müi
		human person	lomüii	__	lokhrumüii
					lo(ta)khrumüii

5.		o

		dim.	looohihi	looohĩhi	loookhruhi
					loootahi
					loootakhruhi

	a.	dim. hum.	loomüiohi	__	loookhrumüihi
					loootakhrumüihi
					loootakhrumüihi

b.	dim masc./dim	loonaohi	__	__
	material entity

c.	dim. fem.	loopüiohi	__	__

6.	numeral eg. pongo

	‘five’	loopongohi	__	__
				loopongotahi

The Anaphoric Pronoun

Anaphoric pronous are four in number :

a) loi b) ii, the i ending pronous and c) losü and d) süsü, which are the -sü ending ones. As may be expected, the -

i ending ones entail familiarity, knowledge on the part of the interlocutors about the referent of the pronoun whereas the -sü ending ones do not entail such knowledge. A further difference between lo

i and

i is that the speaker is emotionally indifferent to or is not positively inclined towards the referent of

i whereas the referent has some appeal to the speaker in the case of loi/lonai/lopüii. This difference applies especially to human referents. Nondeictic pronouns beginning with lo- signify referents which are somehow remote. Thus, lonati could undicate a referent which is hidden or in some sense far away and which is one of the two one of which the listener has brought.

3.3.6.3.1.

ţi-ending Anaphoric Pronoun 1

		singular	dual	plural
	base form	loi	lohĩi	lokhrui
				lotai
				lotakhrui

1.	ta
	‘kind’	lotai	lotahĩi	lotai
				lotakhrui

2.	-na
	inanimate or	lonai	__	*lonakhrui
	material entity			lonatai
	and hum. masc.			lonatakhrui
				lonatakhrumüii

3.	-püi
	hum. fem.	lopüii	ĩi(??)	__

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