nña

See also: nna, NNA, -nna, -nña, nnâ, nn'â, nn'a, and n̄na

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *apina. Compare Trió anja, Wayana emna, Waiwai amna.

Pronoun

nña

  1. the first-person exclusive dual pronoun; he and I, she and I, it and I.

Usage notes

While most personal pronouns are optional in contexts where nouns, verbs, and postpositions already have personal affixes, nña is obligatory, as there is no such affix for the first-person exclusive dual.

Inflection
Maquiritari personal pronouns
singular dual plural
first person exclusive üwü,D ewüY nña —
first person inclusive — küwü künwanno
second person ömödö,D amödöY — önwanno
third person tüwü — tünwanno
Y. Ye’kwana dialect.
D. De’kwana dialect.

References
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “nɲa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nña”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120–122
  • Meira, Sérgio (2002), “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
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