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 :
| Full form | Short form | |
| I | aku | ku |
| Thou | ěṅkaw | kaw |
II. Mentaway has the two series complete, save that for the second person plural the full form and the short are identical :
| Full form | Short form | |
| I | aku | ku |
| Thou | äkäw | nu |
| He | iña | i |
| We | sita | ta |
| You | kam | kam |
| They | sia | ra |
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:
| Full form | Short form | ||
| I | iyaq | u or ku | aq |
| Thou | iko | mu | o or ko |
| He | iya | na | i |
| We | idiq | kiq | kiq |
| You | iko | mu | o or ko |
| They | iya | na | i |
