Eastern Puroik
Eastern Puroik is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China and India. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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The Puroik language (previously called Sulung, a derogatory term, by other tribes) is a set of language varieties spoken by the Puroik people of Arunachal Pradesh in India and of Lhünzê County, Tibet, in China.
Besides their own language, the Puroik also use Nishi, Hindi, and Assamese. Literacy is very low, at about 2%. Those who are literate use either the Bengali-Assamese script, Devanagari or the Latin alphabet to write Puroik.
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Words in Eastern Puroik
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | bi* | |
| name | abraN* | |
| eye | aguk* | |
| ear | akui* | |
| nose | apauk* | |
| tooth | kutuaN* | |
| tongue | alie* | |
| hand | git* | |
| blood | hui* | |
| bone | azai* | |
| skin | biak3* | |
| knee | cEk3* | |
| breast | anaimunai* | |
| liver | apie* | |
| water | kua | |
| fire | bE* | |
| sun | k3rri* | |
| star | haxai* | |
| stone | k3park3pra* | |
| mountain | graN* | |
| tree | hren* | |
| leaf | aluk* | |
| night | aCer* | |
| dog | boh* | |
| fish | kafuaN* | |
| louse | puxai* | |
| one | Sun* | |
| two | ni* | |
| I | goh* | |
| you | na* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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