Oceanic Linguistics

This squib presents a short description of the pronominal systems of Mongondow-Gorontalo languages, several of which include count forms that do not seem to be limited in terms of numerical value. Two of these languages have also replaced the historical plural pronouns with forms explicitly marked as trials. Such systems have not been found in any other Philippine or Philippine-type language, and are only otherwise known to exist in some of the languages of western and central Borneo and in some Oceanic languages.