Datapoint Eskimo Pidgin/Person syncretism in independent personal pronouns

There is no person syncretism in pronouns. However, there is pure number syncretism. As Stefánsson (1909: 220) notes: "It is rarely the jargon makes a difference between singulars and plurals". There are some rare exceptions to this in the data. Stefánsson (1909: 221) mentions a dual and a plural form of the second person pronoun used by native speakers of the main lexifier language, but these forms were not commonly used in the pidgin.

Values

No person syncretism

Confidence:
Intermediate