Editing Burushaski (section)

==== Pronouns and pronominal prefixes ====
Nouns indicating parts of the body and kinship terms are accompanied by an obligatory pronominal prefix. Thus, one cannot simply say 'mother' or 'arm' in Burushaski, but only 'my arm', 'your mother', 'his father', etc. For example, the root ''mi'' 'mother', is never found in isolation, instead one finds:
* ''i-mi'' 'his mother', ''mu-mi'' 'her mother', "gu-mi" 'your mother'(3f sg.), ''u-mi'' 'their mother' (3h pl.), ''u-mi-tsaro'' 'their mothers'(3h pl.).

The pronominal, or personal, prefixes agree with the person, number and – in the third person, the class of their noun. A summary of the basic forms is given in the following table:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
! Singular
! Plural
|-
! colspan="2" | 1st person
| ''a-''
| ''mi-, me-''
|-
! colspan="2" | 2nd person
| ''gu-, go-''
| ''ma-''
|-
! rowspan="4" | 3rd<br />person
! m
| ''i-, e-''
| ''u-, o-''
|-
! f
| ''mu-''
| ''u-, o-''
|-
! x
| ''i-, y-''
| ''u-, o-''
|-
! y
| colspan="2" | ''i-, e-''
|}

Personal pronouns in Burushaski distinguish proximal and distal forms, e.g. ''khin'' 'he, this one here', but ''in'', 'he, that one there'. In the oblique, there are additional abbreviated forms.