The present study proposes that the dual use of the Proto-Austronesian first-person non-singular inclusive pronoun *kita originated from *kita duha ‘we, two’ with the numeral *duha 'two' and that plural forms consisting of *kita and other pronouns can be traced back to inclusory pronominal constructions. It also suggests that Proto-Austronesian *kita was a first-person plural inclusive pronoun.
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