History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 199
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] inflections which the pronouns take for tense, or rather, the auxiliary verbs, have, had, shall, will, may, etc. This class embraces the preformative or prefixed pronouns. The inseparable suffixed or subformative pronouns are : yaun, my; yun, thy; id or d, his or hers; yaung, our (ex.); yung, our (in.); yaig^ your; waud, their. These pronouns are exclusively employed as suffixes; and as suffixes to the de scriptive substantives, adjectives, and verbs. Relative pronouns are very limited. Demonstrative pronouns, both animate and inanimate, are found in many forms The Algonquin language is in a peculiar sense a language of pronouns. Originally there appear to have been but three terms, answering to the three persons, I, thou, or you, and he or she. By these terms, the speaker or actor is clearly distin-44 348 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.