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Ronald S. Himes, The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages, in the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17-20 January 2006, Palawan, Philippines, (2006, Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL International), page 7
Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
Cameroon Pidgin
Pronoun
wi
Alternative spelling of we(“1st person plural subject and object personal pronoun”)
1986, Michael Parchment, My Freedom Voice (in Jamaican Creole), page 11:
“All di nice time was fi dem, Dem tek wi black sista and use dem, Dem starve we di men, Wanting us not to be friend. Thinking we ago rebel against dem […]”
Only they enjoyed themselves, They took away our black sisters and used them, They starved us -- the men, They didn't want us to be friends. They thought we would rebel against them
The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur. Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine jü / hör. Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents. The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:
A war cowdealeen wi ooree.
They were scolding with one another.
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:
wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;
to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 9-11:
Yn ercha an aul o' while yt beeth wi gleezom o' core th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,
In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:
Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,
In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 9-10:
Wi Irishmen owre generale hopes be ee-bond——
With Irishmen our common hopes are inseparably bound up——
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 12-14:
shorne o'lournagh an ee-vilt wi benisons, an yerzel an oure gude Zovereine,
free from melancholy and full of blessings, for yourself and our good Sovereign,
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32