sashno

Choctaw

Pronoun

sashno (first-person singular)

1. (Mississippi, emphatic) I, me
2. (Mississippi) mine

Usage notes

• This pronoun was formed analogously from the class II pronominal prefixes (see sa-) + -shno, extrapolated form the other emphatic pronouns. It's mostly used by younger speakers of Mississippi Choctaw. It's considered ungrammatical to other speakers.
• Choctaw usually doesn't use personal pronouns, instead relying on pronominal affixes.

Inflection

Choctaw personal pronouns

	emphatic			possessive‡
	singular	paucal	plural	singular	paucal	plural
first-person	ano sashno†	pishno	hapishno	ammi	pimmi	hapimmi
second-person	chishno	hachishno		chimmi	hachimmi
third-person	yamma			ilap

† Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard.
‡ First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.