Possession

Rayanese possession isn’t anything special.  Rayanese uses possessive determiners and pronouns derived from the genitive standard personal pronouns.  I did change the personal pronouns mainly to have distinct plural stems for the 3rd person forms.  Here is the new set of personal pronouns (leaving out the reflexive and reciprocal forms):

  singular plural
1st mo wo
2nd to vo
3rd animate lo jo
3rd inanimate so ho

These pronouns can change gender to agree with their antecedent, like –o adjectives. For example, to you (neuter.), tu you (masc.), ta you (fem.).

From these we derive the possessive determiners and pronouns:

  singular plural
1st mosi wosi
2nd tosi vosi
3rd animate losi josi
3rd inanimate sosi hosi

These decline like -i adjectives.

mos huz – my male twin mosen huzen – my female twins.

With all these updates, I should update my main conlang site!

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