jjhayek

Wutunhua

Etymology

Tibetan རྒྱ (rgya, “Chinese”) + Mandarin 語／语 (“language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟ͡ʝajɘˠ/

Proper noun

jjhayek

1. Chinese language

   Synonym: hahua

   xo wang san nian-de ggo jjhayek jjhang-la-lio ze-li .

   Xiao Wang has studied Chinese for three years.

   (Quoted in Sandman, p. 193)

References

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN