Pronouns
Najan has two first-person plural pronouns, distinguished by clusivity. The inclusive pronoun djof includes the speaker, those addressed, and possibly one or more third-person referents. The exclusive pronoun jal includes the speaker and at least one third person but excludes those addressed.
First-person Pronouns
Singular | Plural inclusive | Plural exclusive |
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ko | djof | jal |
Second-person Pronouns
Singular | Plural |
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to | ŋak |
The interrogative pronoun vel stands for something unknown and is essential to the formation of content questions, where it indicates the missing information that the asker wishes to know.
The assignable pronouns jow, með, paŋ, and tsut have no fixed properties, such as person, number, or gender. They can be bound (or rebound) to any unquantified noun phrase, via determiner phrases.