ངཏ​

Kurtop

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa. Cognates include Dzongkha (nga) and Tibetan (nga).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ŋə̀t̪/

Pronoun

ངཏ​ (ngat)

  1. I

Declension

Kurtop personal pronouns
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
exclusive inclusive
singular absolutive ངཏ​ (ngat) ཝིཏ​ (wit) ཁིཏ​ (khit)
ergative ངའི (ngai) ཝཱི () ཁཱི (khî)
genitive ང་པྱི (ngaci) ཝི་པྱི (wici) ཁི་པྱི (khici)
plural absolutive ནེཏ​ (net) ནེར​ (ner) ནིན​ (nin) བོཏ​ (bot)
ergative ནེའི (nei) ནེ་རི (neri) ནི་ངི (ningi) བོའི (boi)
genitive ནེ་པྱི (neci) ནེ་རི (neri) ནིན་ཏི (ninti)
ནིན་པྱི (ninci)
བོ་པྱི (boci)
*) The demonstrative pronoun ཚཱོ (tshô) can be used as a polite second-person pronoun.

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), “ngat”, in Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft)
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 156
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