form the first syllable is always "Ke," and in the other "Ne." The form
commencing with Ke is used only when speaking to one person, and that
commencing with Ne, which might be called the multiple form, is used
whenever more than one person is addressed, even though no word may
appear in the sentence indicating how many. This is an idiosyncracy
which perhaps would never have been developed, certainly would not be
perpetuated, in any except an unwritten language. It is of no effect
except in a language always colloquial. The multiple form will be given
in this grammar as the first person plural, and, whether indicated or
not, the other may be understood as being the same with the change of
the first syllable from Ne to Ke.


PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

Sing. Pl.

1st. p.--Neen or nin, I, ( Ne-naw-wind, (mult.), We.
( Ke-naw-wind,) We.
2d p.--Keen or kin, Thou or you, Ke-naw-waw, You.
3d p.--Ween or win, He or she, We-naw-waw, They.

When these personal pronouns are connected with other words, or when
they become subjects or objects of verbs, the first syllable only is
used, or pronounced. In the third person of verbs the pronoun is
entirely omitted.

Sing. Pl.

Ne wob, I see, Ne wob-me, We see.