As the person addressed is in front of the speaker, the frontal demonstrative naturally formed the base of the second personal pronoun.

     There is reason to infer or suppose, that there was an intermediate stage between first and the third, with the forms y‡n, then, and y‡m, you.

     The nominatives ‡n, ‡m, n‡n and n‡m, and the oblique bases nun, and num, have become extinct.

     num is confined to the poetic dialect.

     n…n and n…m are still current in the Tirunelveli District among certain sections of the peasants though not known to those who have been neither natives nor residents of that part of Tamil Nadu. n…n is not to be found anywhere in the extant Tamil literature.

     The most common and universal form of the singular pronoun of the second person is n…, the apoeopic form of n…n; and its plural is formed by the addition of ar, the rational plural suffix of the third person, as n…yir the change of ‘a’ into ‘i’ being due to the operation of the principle of Harmonic Sequence of Vowels. n…vir is an anomalous form of n…yir, and both of these have contracted into n…r, which has replaced n…m in the colloquial speech almost all over Tamil Nad.

Third Person:

     ƒ, the radical vowel of the pronouns of the third person, is the remote demonstrative.

     The earliest forms of the singular and plural pronouns of the third person, might have been ƒn and ƒm, and then replaced by the prosthetic forms tƒn and tƒm respectively.