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Conlangery #102: Afrihili

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The Different Forms of Pronouns in Swahili

In Swahili, the possessive forms of pronouns have two different forms. And he actually basically managed his co-reference using these different forms sort of in a syntactic way. That's an interesting way to do that. I've never heard of a natural language like this, but maybe there are languages. We do have languages in the region. He may know them that have a logo for separate sets of pronouns for determining who refers to what in indirect clauses. So they don't work like this exactly. They have a different set, but this is him making use of the material.

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