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Dec 30, 2023 at 15:21 vote accept Mr Jangoon
Mar 1, 2023 at 17:02 comment added Janus Bahs Jacquet Outside Indo-Aryan languages, another parallel is Celtic, which also completely lost the nominative of the first person singular pronoun, ending up with only descendants of Proto-Celtic *mī reflected in the attested languages.
Mar 1, 2023 at 16:46 comment added Yellow Sky @MrJangoon — Examples: in Romani “I” (1st p. sg. pronoun) is me, Assamese মই (moi) and Hind: मैं (ma͠i) are both from instr. case, Sanskrit máyā “by me”), Nepali म (ma), Oriya ମୁଁ (mum̐), Sinhalese මම (mama) from Sanskr. मम (mama) gen./dat. of Sanskrit अहम् (aham).
Mar 1, 2023 at 14:10 comment added Mr Jangoon thank you, this is a relevant and useful answer. Could you tell me some more examples in Indo Aryan languages if thats ok?
Mar 1, 2023 at 12:56 history answered Sir Cornflakes CC BY-SA 4.0