The plural pronouns in Mikir are formed by adding -tum to the singular. Exactly the same thing takes place in Tangkhul, a Naga-Kuki language: i, I, i-thum, we; nā, thou, nā-thum, ye; ā, he, ā-thum, they. The plural of nouns, however, in Tangkhul is formed by other affixes, generally words meaning “many” (cf. the Mikir òng).

Mikir has two forms for the pronoun of the first person plural, according as the speaker includes the person addressed or excludes him, ī-tum or ē-tum in the former and nē-tum in the latter case. The first, it will be seen, agrees with the general word for we in Tangkhul. In Angāmi also two forms are used, hē-ko for we exclusive, and ā-vo for we inclusive; the former seems to agree in form, though not in sense, with the Mikir ē-tum. The affinity of Mikir with the Western Naga and Naga-Kuki languages seems to be exemplified here also. The Boṛo languages have not the double form for this person.

The reflexive pronoun or particle in Mikir, che (see p. 80), is represented in Thado Kuki by ki, which is perhaps the same word. Angāmi has the, Meithei na. Boṛo does not appear to possess any corresponding particle.

The interrogative particle -mā in Mikir (p. 80) is mo in most of the Kuki-Chin languages (in some -em, -am), while in Angāmi it is mā, and in Kachcha Naga mē. The same particle (mā) is used in Garo and Boṛo for questions.

Two particles are used in Mikir as suffixes to magnify or diminish the root-word; the augmentative is -pī (as thèng, wood, firewood, thèngpī, a tree; làng, water, làngpī, the great water, the sea), the diminutive is -sō (as hèm, a house, hèmsō, a hut; làng-sō, a brook). Boṛo has -mā for the augmentative, -sā for the diminutive (dui-mā, great river, dui-sā, brook); but Meithei and Thado have the same particles as Mikir, -pī and -chā (ch is equivalent to s).

The Mikir suffix -pō, feminine -pī, corresponding to the Hindī -wālā (see several examples on p. 12 ante), seems to be identical with the Meithei -bā (-pā) and -bī (-pī), though it has nothing like the extensive use in Mikir which -bā (-pā) has in Meithei.

The noteworthy separable prefix ār- in Mikir, which is probably connected with the Tibetan prefix r- (see ante, p. 129, note), appears to occur in the Kuki-Chin languages, but does not seem to have any representative in the Boṛo family. The examples in the Kuki-Chin volume of the Linguistic Survey are found in Rangkhol (p. 6, er-ming, “name”), Aimol (p. 215, ra-mai, “tail,” Mikir ārmē), Kōm (p. 245, ra-mhing, “name”; ra-nai, “earth, ground” [nai perhaps = Mikir lē in lòng-lē]), Kyaw or Chaw (p. 254), and Hirōi (p. 282). All these forms of speech belong to the Old Kuki group, which has already yielded several other analogies with Mikir.

The prefix ke- (ki-, kā-), which plays so important a part in Mikir (see pp. 77, 83, 84) in the formation of adjectives, participles, and verbal nouns, and answers to the Boṛo ga- and the Angāmi ke-, has for the most part disappeared from the Kuki dialects, perhaps because it conflicts with the prefixed pronominal stem of the first person, ka-. It survives, however, in the three Old Kuki languages, Kōm, Anāl, and Hirōi. In Tangkhul, of the Naga-Kuki group, it is used exactly as in Mikir, to form adjectives and verbal nouns, e.g.:—

Mikir.Tangkhul.
to comeke-vàngka-vā (to go)
to eatke-chōka-shāi
to remainke-bòmka-pam (to sit)
to beatke-chòkka-shō
to dieke-thīka-thī

The particles used in Mikir as suffixes to indicate tenses of the verb, with the exception of that for the completed past, tàng, which appears to be identical with the Thado and Lushei tā, do not seem to have any close analogues in the Kuki-Chin or Naga-Kuki groups; they are also quite different from those used in the Boṛo group. Causative verbs, however, are in many Kuki-Chin languages constructed with the verb pē or pèk, “to give,” as in Mikir; and the suffix of the conjunctive participle in Mikir, -sī, is perhaps the same as -chū in Khoirāo. In Boṛo the prefix fi-, answering to the Mikir pi-, was formerly used to form causatives, as appears from verbal roots in current use; the construction now most common uses -nu, which has the same meaning (“to give”) as a suffix.