After the formation the demonstrative pronouns indicating gender and number, tƒn and tƒm changed into Reflexive pronouns. This is an instance of Variation.

When cultural progress required, that the forms of words relating to persons and their actions should be of three grades, so as to suit the three ranks of persons, viz., superiors, equals and inferiors, the old plural form of the pronoun of the second person became honorific singular, and necessitated the super addition of another plural suffix, viz., ka˜, to perfect its plural sense and make it appropriate for use as honorific singular in respect of respectable persons.

First Person:

Second Person:

Third Person:

The nominatives „Œga˜, ‡Œga˜ and n‡Œga˜ have become extinct, and the forms yƒŒga˜ and naŒga˜ obsolete.

niŒga˜ is preserved in Malayalam, the descendant of the Tamil of ancient Chera Nadu.

The form nƒŒga˜ is now misused in the place of yƒŒga˜.