This is an interesting one. It has some good information about clusivity in Klingon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity


On 5/22/2020 5:35 AM, De'vID wrote:

{maH} means "we" — that is, "you (singular or plural) and I" and also "he/she/they and I" and also "you (singular or plural) and he/she/they and I."

maH is confirmed to lack clusivity.


When the "we/us" prefixes are used, this sometimes gets clarified:

{pI-} "we-you (singular)" and {re-} "we-you (plural)": "we" means only "he/she/they and I," and none of the other "we" options
{ju-} "you (singular)-us" and {che-} "you (plural)-us": "us" means only "him/her/them and me," and none of the other options

pI- and re- agree with exclusive we subjects. They can't agree with inclusive we subjects because the second person is the object.

ju- and che- agree with exclusive we objects. They can't agree with inclusive we objects because the second person is the subject.

Basically, a first- or second-person pronoun cannot be both subject and object. You cannot say jIH SoH je relegh jIH SoH je you and I see you and me.


But not always:

{ma-} "we (no object)": "we" can mean any of the options
{wI-} "we-him/her/it" and {DI-} "we-them": "we" can mean any of the options (though any third persons included in the subject are different folks from those in the object)
{nu-} "he/she/it/they-us": "us" can mean any of the options (with the same third third-person restriction cited for {wI-} and {DI-})

ma-, wI-, DI- do not distinguish clusivity in the subjects they agree with.

nu- does not distinguish clusivity in the object it agrees with.

Since there is no duplication of the same first- or second-person pronoun in both subject and object, there is no clusivity.


Maltz frowned and growled when I suggested {SuvwI' nulegh HoD} and similar constructions. I guess this is one of those places where full pronouns really ought to be used.

Music to my ears. I hate it when people try tricks like this. Prefixes agree with the person of the subject and object; they aren't the pronouns themselves.

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