Krio pronomina

In the following we present the Krio pronomina system as reflected by our Krio corpus. You can access the corpus from the TypeCraft Portal of Language In the list of Krio texts you find texts owned by Beatrice Owusua Nyampong and by the TypeCraft project. The latter corpus is a further development of the Nyampong corpus. You can access the individual corpora by following the link to the Nyampong or TypeCraft user page.

The distribution of nouns and pronouns

in the TypeCraft Krio corpus.

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Personal, Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns

Person/Number	Pronoun	possessive Pronoun	reflexive Pronouns
1SG	a, mi	mi	misɛf*
2SG	yu	yu	yusɛf
3SG	i, am	in	insɛf
1PL	wi	wi
2PL	una	una
3pl	dem	dɛn

The 1SG form misɛf is not attested in our corpus. But the following dialog taken from the Wikipedia articel Krio Language shows the form in use:

Kushe. - "Hello."

Kushe-o. - "Hello."

Wetin na yu nem? - "What is your name?"

Mi nem Jemz. - "My name is James."

Usai yu kɔmɔt? - "Where do you come from?"

A kɔmɔt Estinz. - "I come from Hastings."

Us wok yu de du? - "What work do you do?"

Mi na ticha. - "I am a teacher."

Na us skul yu de tich? - "At what school do you teach?"

I de tich na Prins ɔv Welz. - "I teach at Prince of Wales."

Mi gladi fɔ mit yu. - "I am happy to meet you."

Misɛf gladi fɔ mit yu. - "I myself am happy to meet you."

OK, a de go naw. - "OK, I am going now."

Ɔrayt, wi go tok bak. - "Alright, we will talk again."

In some cases, as the 2PL, we show two forms which seem to be orthographic variants.

Demonstrative Pronouns

Number	NEAR SPEAKER	REMOTE
SINGULAR	dis	dat
PLURAL	dɛn	di

Relative Pronouns

	KRIO	ENGLISH
Place, person, object	we	who, whom, which
Referential object, event	wetin*	what

• wetin can be both a relative pronoun and a question word. Its use has to be realised from context.

Krio Language Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krio_language - accessed 10.09.2016)