so my “main” conlang lántas is actually kind of old at this point. old enough that when i made the personal pronouns, i didn’t know that plurality was a thing that existed, so until today, the first person pronouns were  ká in the singular, and  til in the (grammatical) plural. except that til is an inclusive pronoun, meaning it can only be used when the listener is included. which, as you can see from the fact it has a wikipedia article, is a thing that real life languages do sometimes.

however, when someone uses “we” to mean “me and my headmates”, that is (usually??) an exclusive usage. which means you can’t use til, or the first-person plural verb inflection, and instead have to say  kakas rú(l), or “me and them”. which is… pretty awkward.

it’s time to get a new one.

pronouns

it seems that it would be pretty unlikely, given people’s general attitudes, that a personal pronoun dedicated to plurality would arise naturally. so this is the perfect opportunity to have a neopronoun. without grammatical gender existing in the first place, there’s no particular pressure for a new third-person pronoun to crop up.  rú (or  rúl) fits everyone just fine. as far as i know, anyway.

so,  kál. it is pretty transparently the singular pronoun with the regular plural ending,  ká–l. but that’s fine. it fits in with  rú,  rúl ‘he/she/they (sg)/etc, they (pl)’, and almost with  sur,  sual ‘you (sg)/you (pl)’ too.

 kál inflects almost like a regular noun with  ka– stem, except for the COM, which matches  tiksł and  ruksł, and the locative cases, which keep the long vowel like  ká does.

in the table SPL stands for system plural i guess. (and IPL for inclusive plural; the old thing.)

see §3–4 of the noun page for inadequate descriptions of these cases that one day i will maybe expand on.

verb inflections

the existing person suffixes for verbs actually have no resemblance at all to the pronouns. the new one does though. after all, it’s new! it’s  –káš for the subject and  –kúš for the object.