Re: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) ar

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 42966
Date: 2006-01-16

>> There is also an example in Western Desert language in Australia. They
>> took the 1st pers. pronoun _mi_ from English. It was due to taboo though
>> so this might not be such a good example.
>>
>> Mate
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> How was an intended reference to the 'speaker' handled before that radical
> solution?

Supposedly it was _ngaju/nganku_ but then a person with a similar name
died and they had to change the pronoun because of the taboo.

Mate