Khaling
Khaling is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India and Nepal, by about 15 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Khaling (kʰɛ̂l brâː ख्या:ल् ब्रा:) is a Kiranti language spoken in Solukhumbu district, Nepal and Sikkim, Darjeeling, and Kalimpong in India. It is one of the few Kiranti languages with tonal contrasts, which are of secondary origin.
Khaling has approximately 15,000 speakers and is therefore considered a vulnerable language. Khaling has a complex system of stem alternations: as many as 10 distinct stems have to be posited for a word (Jacques et al. 2012). Khaling is very unusual in having an auditory demonstrative (see Jacques and Lahaussois 2014). Khaling is also known as Rai, Khalinge Rai, Khael Bra, and Khael Baat.
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Words in Khaling
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | hos* | |
| name | noN* | |
| eye | mos* | |
| ear | ङेचो | |
| nose | ne* | |
| tooth | Nolu* | |
| tongue | लेम | |
| hand | khor* | |
| blood | hi* | |
| bone | solu* | |
| skin | ka* | |
| knee | tomcu* | |
| breast | dikha* | |
| liver | lum* | |
| water | कु | ku |
| fire | mi* | |
| sun | nwam* | |
| star | saNgar* | |
| stone | luN* | |
| mountain | ro* | |
| tree | dheksu* | |
| leaf | pho* | |
| night | sene* | |
| dog | khlep* | |
| fish | nge* | |
| louse | ser* | |
| one | tu* | |
| two | sakpu* | |
| I | uN* | |
| you | in* |
* 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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