[Linganth] First person pronouns

[Simeon Floyd]

Following up on the discussion of first person pronouns, the Tsafiki language of Ecuador (Barbacoan Family) has a gender distinction in the first person (which I believe is not particularly common cross-linguistically - although Spanish nosotros/as also comes to mind). The distinction is neutralized in plural, but interestingly the plural is constructed from the feminine form. 
1F           chike/tse   1M          la1PL         chikela/chila
Dickinson, C. 2002. Complex Predicates in Tsafiki. PhD. Diss. U of Oregon, p65 

    On Friday, August 25, 2017 4:18 PM, Liz Coville <ecoville at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Hi Cyndi,
To follow up on the Malay example, Pete Becker alluded to Maly first person singular pronouns in his short essay "Silence across languages" in Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology (1995) (and probably elsewhere as well):
"When we confront a distant language, we are compelled to give full attention to the fact that saying, for instance, "I am" is something we do with words in English, for in that distant language there is no I like our I, and no am at all.  To put one's speaking self into words in Burmese, Javanese or Malay is to make claims of status (high or low) that alienate our very selves... (284)." 
Best,
Liz
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:35 AM So Miyagawa <runa.uei at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Cyndi,
Malay has aku (informal) and saya (formal) as the first-person singular pronouns. 
Reference: Current Trends in Pronoun Usage Among Malay Speakers 
by Normala Othmanhttp://www.philippines-languages.sil.org/ical/papers/othman-Current%20Trends%20in%20Pronoun%20Usage.pdf (see p.5)
I'm a native Japanese speaker, so I wanted to tell you Japanese examples, but you've already mentioned that.

Best wishes,So

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Cynthia Dunn <cyndi.dunn at uni.edu> wrote:

Hello all.  I am writing a piece talking about the use of pronouns in self-representation and I wanted to ask if people are aware of languages besides Japanese which offer speakers a choice of more than one option for singular, first-person pronouns (based on things like gender, situational formality etc).  If you are, I would appreciate a brief grammatical outline of the system and/or direction to an appropriate reference work.  You can contact me directly off the list at: Cyndi.Dunn at uni.edu

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University of Northern Iowa
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