ངཏ
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Kurtöp
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa. Cognates include Dzongkha ང (nga) and Tibetan ང (nga).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ངཏ (ngat)
Declension
[edit]| Kurtöp personal pronouns | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| exclusive | inclusive | ||||
| singular | absolutive | ངཏ (ngat) | ཝིཏ (wit) | ཁིཏ (khit) | |
| ergative | ངའི (ngai) | ཝཱི (wî) | 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
[edit]- 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