ARE THE OLD JAPANESE PERSONAL PRONOUNS GENETICALLY RELATED TO THOSE OF THE ALTAIC LANGUAGES?
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Yoshizo Itabashi
All the functions of the OJ personal pronouns may never be cognate with any of the Altaic personal pronouns, except for OJ wa, as well as possibly o2re, and i/si which may possibly be cognate with PMo *ba, *öre/*örö, PA *i/Ma-Tg si/OTK *si respectively. The OJ morphemes i/si identical with the OJ personal pronouns i/si seemed to play a crucial role in finding out the origin of the OJ personal pronouns i/si because the identical morphemes i/si may have the undifferentiated deictic/emphatic function in common, which became developed into the OJ personal pronouns i/si.