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

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From: "Mate Kapović" <mkapovic@...>
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families)
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>
> >> 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

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Patrick:

Whether probative or not, it is an interesting anecdote, to be sure.

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