6. m for 1st or 2nd person singular
Nichols & Peterson [WALS] (emphasis added): First person m (Map 136A) is ubiquitous in the Greater Silk Road area and nearly pan-Eurasian, missing in the Eurasian islands, Southeast Asia, and the Asian Pacific Rim; it is well attested in sub-Saharan Africa and New Guinea, sparsely attested in the Americas, and absolutely absent from Australia.
Second person m (Map 137A) has a solid Pacific Rim distribution with occasional tokens inland in the Americas, in the Eurasian islands, and in Africa; it is absolutely absent from the Greater Silk Road area and Australia.
African data:
| | 1st pers. m : well attested in sub-Saharan Africa: |
| 2nd pers. m : occasional tokens (...) in Africa: |
| m |
lgs |
1sg |
% |
Comments |
|
2sg |
% |
Comments |
AA |
139 |
31 |
22% |
Chadic only |
|
13 |
9% |
Chadic only |
| NC |
493 |
399 |
81% |
All branches except Ijoid and Kordofanian |
|
112 |
22% |
Gur, Atlantic, Ubangi, Adamawa. Sporadic elsewhere |
| NS |
96 |
48 |
50% |
All Maban and Central Sudanic only |
|
14 |
15% |
sporadic but mainly in Central Sudanic |
| other |
10 |
3 |
33% |
1 Khoisan, Hadza, 1 Kadugli |
|
1 |
10% |
1 Kadugli |
| gen. |
738 |
481 |
65% |
Niger-Congo and adjacent groups |
|
140 |
19% |
Mainly Central Africa, clusters westwards |
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