Pronouns : Attempted Regularity

I realise that I have used a couple of Eldawnian pronouns in my earlier linguistic posts without explaining how they work. There is a rather straightforward method to their construction. To begin with - personal pronouns. In English, they are words like I, me, you, they and them. Like the rest of the human related nouns, they end with a default [-s] and the noun before [-s] is dependent on the gender of the person or people being referred to. [-e-] is neutral, [-o-] is masculine and [-u-] is feminine. There are three persons, first, second and third, which doesn't beg much explanation. The persons are indicated by [c-], [t-] and [p-] respectively. Altogether, there are nine personal pronouns : 'ces, cos, cus, tes, tos, tus, pes, pos and pus'.

In formal settings, the prefix [ri-] is added. Another significant prefix is [be-], which is used to indicate respect. There are no plural declensions for the pronouns, as with all Eldawnian nouns. Instead, the particle 'üt' added before the noun.

The second series of pronouns that have been set are the demonstrative pronouns, which are words like this, that, these and those. Demonstratives are used to point out specific objects. There are three "persons" or distances rather. Close would be the first distance, indicating things on your own person, or that belong to yourself. Near would be the second, indicating things that are in the immediate area. Far would be the third, indicating things that are distant from both the speaker and the listener. The first, second and third positions are indicated with [g-], [d-] and [b-] respectively. The final letter is [-n], and the vowels follow the same paradigm for gender, including [-i-] for the locative gender. This yields twelve demonstrative pronouns : 'gen, gon, gun, gin, den, don, dun, din, ben, bon, bun and bin'.

Both the personal and demonstrative pronouns can be declined for each of the four cases, Ablative [-dz], Dative [-rets], Possessive [-ch] and Instrumental [-rej].

The final class of nouns I'll deal with for now are the reflexive pronouns, which in English is indicated with myself, yourself and themselves. This class of pronouns is indicated with the infix [-r-]. This applies to the personal pronouns more clearly, resulting in : 'cres, cros, crus, tres, tros, trus, pres, pros and prus'. These nouns are used when the object of a verb is also the subject of the verb. For example, in the sentence : I'll help myself. In Eldawnian, this would be 'cos ibeco cros'.

One set of pronouns that I have not yet dealt with are the indefinite pronouns, such as anyone, everyone, someone and nobody. These will probably be tied to the numeral system and number words, which I have yet to codify.