suffixes. Within the animate class, nouns are further subdivided into two sub-classes. The first of these includes all humans belonging to the Yuchi tribe, and is itself further divided according to a very complex system of kinship relations and gendered speech registers. The second sub-class of animate nouns encompasses all human beings outside of the Yuchi tribe, as well as animals, and the sun and moon. The animate (Yuchi) suffixes express a very complex system of kinship and gendered speech in much the same way as do third person pronouns. -noany male or female Yuchi (used by men and women) -sen'oany younger (for men, related) female (used by men and women) -s'en'oyounger male relative (used by women only) -enoolder female relative (used by men and women) -onoyounger unrelated male or any other unrelated person (used by women only) -inoolder male relative (used by women only) -weno'all other animate beings Inanimate nouns are divided into three groups: vertical, horizontal, and round objects or those otherwise do not conform to either of the other two groups. Each of these groups is represented by a suffix. -fa vertical -'e horizontal -dji round Number The concept of plurality in Yuchi is not as strongly developed as in English, leading one early descriptivist to claim that Yuchi has "no true plural." Animate nouns can, however, be pluralized by the addition of suffixes that correspond closely to their singular counterparts. Although tribal affiliation and gender distinctions carry over into the plural, kinship does not. -he'noYuchi tribe members (male speech) -o'noYuchi tribe members (female speech) -we'noall other animate beings Inanimate nouns can be made plural by the suffix -ha, which replaces the singular inanimate suffixes listed above. In addition to suffixing, several words related to kinship are pluralized via reduplication of the stem. Pronouns The Yuchi pronoun is extremely complex. Except in a few emphatic forms, the pronoun is always suffixed to a verb or noun stem, and appears in eight distinct sets. The first pronoun set, termed the Subjective Series, denotes the subject relationship of the pronoun to the verb. Series 1 and 2 are close variations that respectively represent a general and specific object, whereas the "independent series" represents freestanding pronouns. {| class="wikitable" |+ Subjective Series ! || Subject Series 1 || Subject Series 2 || Independent |- ! 1st Person Sing. | di- || do- || di |- ! 2nd Person Sing. | ne-