Solu-Khumbu Sherpa
Solu-Khumbu Sherpa is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal, China, and India, by about 150 thousand people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba), Sherpa: ཤར་པའི་སྐད, Wylie (shar pa'i skad) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority of speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. About 245,000 speakers live in Nepal (2021 census), some 25,000 in Sikkim, India (2011), 11,000 speakers live in Bhutan and some 47,000 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (2020). Sherpa is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language. Sherpa is predominantly a spoken language, although it is occasionally written using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script.
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Words in Solu-Khumbu Sherpa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | འ་མ | 'a ma |
| father | འ་བ | 'a ba |
| name | མིང | ming |
| eye | མིག | mig |
| ear | नम्जोक | namdzok |
| tooth | ས | sa |
| tongue | ལྕེ་ལ | lce la |
| hand | ལག་པ | |
| heart | སྙིང | snying |
| head | མགོའ | mgo' |
| blood | ཁྲག | khrag |
| skin | པའུ | pa'u |
| knee | པིས་མུང | pis mung |
| water | ཆུ | chu |
| fire | མེ | me |
| moon | ཨུག་ལ | ug la |
| snow | གའ | ga' |
| stone | རྡོ | rdo |
| dog | ཀྱི | kyi |
| horse | རྟ | rta |
| pig | ཕག་པ | phag pa |
| snake | རུལ | rul |
| louse | ཤིག | shig |
| one | གཅིག | gcig |
| two | གཉིས | gnyis |
| three | གསུམ | gsum |
| four | བཞི | bzhi |
| hundred | ཟ་ཡི | za yi |
| I | ང | nga |
| eat | ཟ | za |
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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