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Categories:  Pronoun > Personal > 1st Person, Singular, Case > Genitive, Short

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If the host word ends with a vowel or diphthong, the normal pronoun ku can be replaced by glottal stop attached to the host word, written here as apostrophe. Furthermore, if the host word ends with diphthongs -ay and -aw, those become -e and -o, respectively [1, 76].

Lappaw ku
Lappo'
My flower
Lappaw = flower, ko = of me.

Wagi ku
Wagi'
My sibling
Wagi = sibling, ko = of me.

References:

  1. Ibanag speakers
  2. Dita, S. (2010). A Reference Grammar of Ibanag: Phonology, Morphology, & Syntax. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301223082.
  3. OwenL (2008). Ybanag 101. https://ybanag101.blogspot.com/.