Editing Grammatical person (section)

==Related classifications==

===Number===
{{Main|Grammatical number}}

In [[Indo-European languages]], first-, second-, and third-person pronouns are typically also marked for [[Grammatical number|singular]] and [[plural]] forms, and sometimes [[dual grammatical number|dual]] form as well ([[grammatical number]]).

===Inclusive/exclusive distinction===
{{Main|Clusivity}}

Some other languages use different classifying systems, especially in the plural pronouns. One frequently found difference not present in most Indo-European languages is a contrast between [[inclusive and exclusive we|inclusive and exclusive "we"]]: a distinction of first-person plural pronouns between including or excluding the addressee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Filimonova |first1=Elena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--uyimDWbJoC |title=Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of Inclusive-exclusive Distinction |date=2005 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-90-272-2974-8}}{{pn|date=December 2022}}</ref>

===Honorifics===
{{Main|Honorifics (linguistics)}}

Many languages express person with different [[morphemes]] in order to distinguish degrees of formality and informality. A simple honorific system common among European languages is the [[T–V distinction]]. Some other languages have much more elaborate systems of formality that go well beyond the T–V distinction, and use many different pronouns and verb forms that express the speaker's relationship with the people they are addressing. Many [[Malayo-Polynesian languages]], such as [[Javanese language|Javanese]] and [[Balinese language|Balinese]], are well known for their complex systems of [[honorific]]s; [[Japanese language|Japanese]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Itoh |first1=Keiko |chapter=Japanese Honorifics |pages=x-xi |jstor=j.ctt1s17nnj.5 |doi=10.1515/9781898823414-003 |doi-access=free |title=My Shanghai, 1942-1946 |year=2016 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-1-898823-41-4 }}</ref> [[Korean language|Korean]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Byon |first1=Andrew Sangpil |title=Teaching Korean honorifics |journal=The Korean Language in America |date=2000 |volume=5 |pages=275–289 |jstor=42922325 }}</ref> and [[Chinese language|Chinese]] also have similar systems to a lesser extent.