ABSTRACT
Sehwi, have bt: as the 3rd person plural pronoun, just as in the Bia dialect cluster: Baule, Chakosi, Nzema, Ahanta, Anyi and Sehwi. In the other Akan dialects it is w;)n.) Fante: ab;)fra nv ;)yt: adZI
child the he-does thing. i.e. 'he does well' r.nb;)fra nv h;)n ntar children the their clothes
In Nzema, Ahanta and Anyi, there is a group of nouns which have a vowel prefix a-when they occur in a possessive construction in which the preceding noun is the possessor. A few of them (Slit:, ninli, kunli) occur with the 3rd person singular possessive pronoun instead of a-in such constructions. etile 'head' Kofi 3ti YIlt: 'wife' Kofi ayl yalt: 'child' Manza aya
'Kofi's head' 'Kofi's wife' 'Manza's child'
nyt:fvlt: 'breast' Manza anyt:fv 'Manza's breast' 'Kwodwo's father' slit: 'father' Kwodwo ;) Zl
ninli 'mother' Manza 0 nli 'Manza's mother' kunli 'husband' Manza 0 hu 'Manza's husband'
As can be seen from these examples, the noun loses its suffix when it occurs with the a-prefix or when preceded by the possessive pronoun. All these nouns are either kinship nouns or refer to parts of the body.
