Maithili pronouns

Personal pronouns of Maithili: a three-level honorific contrast in the second person (tõ / ahã / apne) and a two-level one in the third (ũ / o). Maithili has allocutive agreement, blocked with a second-person subject and incompatible with object agreement ([alok-bhalla-2026], after Kumari 2022); its marker forms are not recorded here.

References

• [D. Alok and O. Bhalla, Allocutivity and the Syntax of Honorifics (2026)][alok-bhalla-2026]

def Maithili.Pronouns.hum : PersonalPronoun

hum — 1sg.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.hum = { form := "hum", person := some Person.first, number := some Number.singular }

def Maithili.Pronouns.humSab : PersonalPronoun

hum sab — 1pl.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.humSab = { form := "hum sab", person := some Person.first, number := some Number.plural }

def Maithili.Pronouns.toN : PersonalPronoun

tõ — 2sg nonhonorific.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.toN = { form := "tõ", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.singular, honorific := some SocialMeaning.HonorificLevel.nonhonorific }

def Maithili.Pronouns.ahaN : PersonalPronoun

ahã — 2sg honorific.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.ahaN = { form := "ahã", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.singular, honorific := some SocialMeaning.HonorificLevel.honorific }

def Maithili.Pronouns.apne : PersonalPronoun

apne — 2sg high honorific.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.apne = { form := "apne", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.singular, honorific := some SocialMeaning.HonorificLevel.highHonorific }

def Maithili.Pronouns.uN : PersonalPronoun

ũ — 3sg nonhonorific.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.uN = { form := "ũ", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.singular, honorific := some SocialMeaning.HonorificLevel.nonhonorific }

def Maithili.Pronouns.o : PersonalPronoun

o — 3sg honorific.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.o = { form := "o", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.singular, honorific := some SocialMeaning.HonorificLevel.honorific }

def Maithili.Pronouns.uNSab : PersonalPronoun

ũ sab — 3pl.

Equations

• Maithili.Pronouns.uNSab = { form := "ũ sab", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.plural }

def Maithili.Pronouns.pronouns : Finset PersonalPronoun

The pronoun inventory.

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