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ni-.

Headword: 
ni-.
Principal English Translation: 

I (first person singular subject prefix)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 1.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Word order is this: 1) subject, 2) object, 3) directional, 4) reflexive, 5) indirect (SODRI).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nigovernador = Yo el gobernador (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 252–253.