Editing Dravidian languages (section)

====Pronouns====
Personal pronouns occur in the 1st and 2nd person. In the 1st person plural there is an inclusive and exclusive form, that is, a distinction is made as to whether the person addressed is included. There is also a reflexive pronoun that refers to the subject of the sentence and is constructed in the same way as personal pronouns. The personal and reflexive pronouns reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian are listed in the table below. In addition, there are special developments in some languages: The south and south-central Dravidian languages have transferred the *ñ initial sound of the 1st person plural inclusive to the 1st person singular (cf. Malayalam ''ñān'', but oblique ''en'' < *yan). The differences between the forms for the inclusive and exclusive we are partly blurred; Kannada has completely abandoned this distinction. The languages of the Tamil-Kodagu group have formed a new exclusive 'we' by adding the plural suffix (cf. Tamil ''nām'' 'we (incl.)', ''nāṅ-kaḷ'' 'we (excl.)').{{sfnp|Krishnamurti|2003|p=244–253}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- class="hintergrundfarbe8"
! !! Nom. !! Obl. !! Meaning
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| 1. Sg.
| ''*yĀn'' || ''*yAn'' || I
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| 1. Pl. excl.
| ''*yĀm'' || ''*yAm'' ||we (excl.)
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| 1. Pl. incl.
| ''*ñām'' || ''*ñam'' || we (incl.)
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| 2. Sg.
| ''*nīn'' || ''*nin'' || you
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| 2. Pl
| ''*nīm'' || ''*nim'' || you all
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| Refl. Sg.
| ''*tān'' || ''*tan'' || (he/she/it) himself
|-
! align="left" class="hintergrundfarbe8"| Refl. Pl.
| ''*tām'' || ''*tam'' || themselves
|}

The demonstrative pronouns also serve as personal pronouns of the 3rd person. They consist of an initial vowel expressing the distance and a suffix expressing number and gender. There are three levels of distance: the far distance is formed with the initial vowel *a-, the middle distance with *u- and the near distance with *i-. The same deictic elements also occur in local ('here', 'there') and temporal adverbs ('now', 'then'). The original threefold distinction of the distance (e.g. Kota ''avn'' 'he, that one', ''ūn'' 'he, this one', ''ivn'' 'he, this one') has only survived in a few languages spoken today, the yonder distance u- has mostly become obsolete instead a- and i- are used. Interrogative pronouns are formed analogously to the demonstrative pronouns and are characterized by the initial syllable *ya- (e.g. Kota ''evn'' 'which').{{sfnp|Krishnamurti|2003|p=253–258}}

Tamil-Telugu made another word ''*ñān'' for the 1SG pronoun back formed from 1P inclusive ''*ñām'', in parallel to *yān; some languages like Tamil retain both forms, ''yāṉ, nāṉ''.{{sfnp|Krishnamurti|2003|pp=260–265}}