Notes:
The distant possessive subject is a case that is exclusive to the personal pronouns.
Ćwarmin has gone through a rather interesting change in its typology: hints from cognate languages suggest that their shared proto-language had a proximate-obviative system. Remnants of this exist in Ćwarmin, but behave more like a switch-reference system, if only for just a handful of verbs. As the proximate-obviative system disintegrated, it was replaced by a specific-definite-indefinite three-way contrast. The definite signifies a referent known to both speaker and listener, the specific is only known to the speaker.
This also made its way into the pronoun system - in the singular, the third person distinguishes referents known to the speaker only from referents known to both. In part, this carries over from pronouns for proximate and obviative nouns. The distinction was lost in the plural, but survives in the nominative and accusative for the paucal. Now, on the other hand, the definiteness morphology is starting to appear on first person pronouns as a way of coding for clusivity in some dialects - definite first person plural is inclusive, specific first person plural exclusive. However, the morphology presented below is a more usual, classical Ćwarmin set of pronouns.
When stressed, the pronoun takes the bolded form. When unstressed, it agrees in vowel harmony with the following word, except over intonation phrase breaks - in which case it agrees in vowel harmony with the preceding word.
The third person singular definite is also the demonstrative used for a nearby object, so basically 'this' (with a slight tinge of 'that'). The morpheme i/u- can combine with IIIpl to form 'these' (with a slight tinge of 'those'), thus "i sit" or "u sut" gives the nominative, "i sić" or "u suć" the accusative, etc. It is seldom combined with the paucal. Ək/ak is the demonstrative used for a non-nearby object, so basically "that". It can combine likewise with the IIIpl for plural demonstratives, but the IIIpl without ək/ak basically serves as such a demonstrative in its own right as well.
For singular as well as plural nouns, i/u serves as the demonstrative determiner ('this noun'), whereas ək/ak serve as the demonstrative for singulars, sit/sut as the demonstrative for plurals.
The third person singular definite is also the demonstrative used for a nearby object, so basically 'this' (with a slight tinge of 'that'). The morpheme i/u- can combine with IIIpl to form 'these' (with a slight tinge of 'those'), thus "i sit" or "u sut" gives the nominative, "i sić" or "u suć" the accusative, etc. It is seldom combined with the paucal. Ək/ak is the demonstrative used for a non-nearby object, so basically "that". It can combine likewise with the IIIpl for plural demonstratives, but the IIIpl without ək/ak basically serves as such a demonstrative in its own right as well.
For singular as well as plural nouns, i/u serves as the demonstrative determiner ('this noun'), whereas ək/ak serve as the demonstrative for singulars, sit/sut as the demonstrative for plurals.
Nota Bene: blogger hates letting tables go unmolested. It is very possible that new lines are deleted, and so on. I've been trying to get it to work properly for a while now and it just seems blogger can't stand not altering it. Thus, if, say, san and śen again are merged, you can tell them apart by one being bolded, the other not. The same happens in a bunch of other places throughout this table. There apparently is no way of circumventing this without adding actual extra rows of cells.
| Isg | IIsg | IIIdef | IIIspec | Ipc | IIpc | IIIdefpc | IIIspecpc | Ipl | IIpl | IIIpl | ||
| nom | sanśən | bec bac | i u | əkak | daldel | ranrən | tawoktejək | mewok mejək | marmer | cer cor | sit sut | |
| acc | ataśətəś | bacaś becəś | iś uś | təś taś | daljaś dəljeś | ranaś reneś | waśjeś | woś jəś | meś maś | cereś coroś | sić suć | |
| dist. poss. subj | atak ətək | bacan becən | inin unun | teś toś | dalun dəlin | ranun renin | - | - | manak mənək | cenek conok | - | |
| gen | anak ənek | bacak betək | ite uta | teś toś | daltudəlti | ranu reni | tawun tejin | - | manak mənək | cenek conok | sitek sutok | |
| dat | aranś ərənś | bacanś bəcənś | in un | tən tan | donś dənś | rənśronś | wokśjikś | - | mankś mənkś | cenkś conkś | siteś sutoś | |
| gen. abl | xaranś źerənś | bacaś bəcəś | ir ar | ter tar | doroś (no front form!) | ronoś (no front form!) | wośjeś | - | markś mərkś | cerkś corkś | sikeś sukoś | |
| inst | źerəp xarap | barap berəp | tap | təp | tap təp | daŕap dəŕep | ranap rənəp | tawap tejəp | - | manap mənəp | canap cənəp | sitəp sutap | |
| com- to | xarkuś źerkiś | backuś beckiś | itiśutuś | tetiś totuś | dalmaku dəlməki | rammaku remməki | tawaku tejəki | - | maruś məriś | coruś cereś | sitiś sutuś | |
| com-with | santuc sentic | batuc becic | itic utuc | tetictotuc | dalmac dəlmec | rammac rəmməc | tawac tejəc | - | maruc meric | coruc ceric | setec sotoc | |
| neg | źerə xaro | bicə buco | istə usto | tistə tusto | daltus dəltis | rono rənə | tenə tono | - | marto mərtə | carto certə | settə sotto |
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