
Conlangery #93: Basque/Euskara (natlang)
Conlangery Podcast
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The Second Person Pronouns in the Solidarity Form
Basque language has two forms of the second person pronoun. The default is called Sue, and it's basically unmarked for politeness or anything. Then you've got he, which is the second person familiar, but it marks for solidarity. This idea of living in similar conditions is so important that people with an age different more than 15 years will never use he - they call each other sue.
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