Lashi
Lashi is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China and Myanmar, by about 30 thousand people.
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Lashi (Burmese: လရှီ, endonym Lacid) is a Burmish language. Although the endonym Lashi is often used by Western researchers, the people refer to themselves and their language as Lacid. It is according to Nishi in the Maruic branch, which preserves the preglottalized initials of Proto-Burmish in the most phonotactic environments.
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Words in Lashi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | pyu* | |
| name | myiN* | |
| eye | myo7* | |
| ear | n3khyap* | |
| nose | no* | |
| tooth | cz* | |
| hand | lo7* | |
| blood | sui* | |
| bone | Soyou* | |
| skin | Sokuk* | |
| knee | potu7* | |
| breast | nou* | |
| liver | s3N* | |
| water | gyid | |
| fire | myi* | |
| sun | pei* | |
| star | kyi* | |
| stone | lukc3N* | |
| mountain | pom* | |
| tree | s3k* | |
| leaf | afu7* | |
| night | myEn* | |
| dog | khui* | |
| fish | N3co* | |
| louse | SEn* | |
| one | ta* | |
| two | 3k* | |
| I | No* | |
| you | naN* | |
| we | NonuN* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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