Comparative East Chadic B evidence on the Mubi pronominal series

Mubi is the best described member of a small "Mubic" subgroup consisting of Masmedje, Kajakse, and Zerenkel. The other members are much more poorly described, but enough can be gleaned from published materials to show that they share essentially the same system of subject pronominal suffix series with different syntactic functions. For Masmedje, a short text is provided in Marti et al. (2007), from which much can be gleaned using Jungraithmayr's Mubi grammar. Sentence 3 is particularly illuminating: waka-sek-aan-sual-ukun and[?]2-come.PFV-?1Pl-ask-2Pl.I/td> You (pl.) have come to ask us questions. We also find examples of what seem to be 1Sg.III -ene (#9), 3Pl.I -ko (#6). For Zerenkel, Ramat provides tac-ku "hit-3Sg.I", bar-kute "give-3MSg.II"; we've already seen -na "-1Sg.I", -ci "3FSg.I". Hunting through the untranslated texts might provide a fuller paradigm. So it looks like this system is common across Mubic. What about its closest relatives, the Northern Guera languages? There,…