nia pronoun English. Genetive demonstrative pronoun, referring to what is relatively near speaker and hearer in space or time, this, that. Example sentence: Subanen. Naa nda' laung ig lain mimanday dun ini, inaan da,” simbageni talu' nia nga getaw diag lunsud. English. “Now there was no one else who had the skill to do this,” he said, except me,” was what he answered the people there in that town. Example sentence: Subanen. Medengeg laak nig bukay keni ki talu' nig buu keni, duminapak dayun ig bukay dia gupid nia buu. English. As soon as these cockatoos heard what this turtle said, then the cockatoos alighted there beside that turtle. Grammar. In narrative nia serves to draw the audience into the location of the action. c.f. nu