The Pronouns of Yulin Dialect

As a branch of Cantonese, Yulin dialect is popular in Yuzhou district of Yulin City in Guangxi and is called Yulin Baihun by the local people. Yulin dialect has special characters and usage of pronouns besides the similarities with Cantonese. In the personal pronouns, there are wordsok,nok,kok,and ok which meanmy home,your home, his home and the other's home. When being used as the possessive case in greeting the relatives, the wordsok,nok,kok meanmy, your,his. The pronoun which has the same character as k can form compound pronouns such as at nek(those),at kai (there). at no(that) and there are special interrogative pronouns likei ln(what),i mn(what),i li(where), lu l(where) and i no(how).