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Rh who are concerned with the Indo-European languages and those who devote themselves to the study of languages in general, for the combination of these forms with the verb represents the commencement of a conjugation.

120. We have already learnt that of the languages which possess short forms of the personal pronouns some exhibit incomplete, others complete, series.

I. In Mal. only the pronouns " I " and " thou " have short forms :

II. Mentaway has the two series complete, save that for the second person plural the full form and the short are identical :

Note. — The Mentaway grammar does not mention the short form i, but there are passages in the texts which admit of no other interpretation than the existence of such a short form. A passage of that sort occurs at the beginning of the first Story of the Great Bear: " Father, he twines yarn at home " = ukui i puputärä bakä ka uma.

III. Bug. in addition to a series of full forms possesses two complete series of short forms: