tsʰɛn³⁵
Pela
[edit]| ← 1 | ← 100 | 1,000 | 10,000 → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: tsʰɛn³⁵ | ||||
Etymology
[edit]From Chinese 千 (qiān, “thousand”), possibly via Southwestern Mandarin. It seems that this loanword replaced the native term derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”), which most Burmish languages still have, as in Burmese ထောင် (htaung, “thousand”), and outside Burmish, for instance, Tibetan སྟོང (stong, “thousand”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]tsʰɛn³⁵
Usage notes
[edit]Like in English, Chinese and Burmese, tsʰɛn³⁵ needs to be modified with a cardinal numeral. Thus, for "one thousand", tə̆.tsʰɛn³⁵ ("tə̆" is a reduced form of ta³¹("one")) should be used.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Dai Qingxia, Jiang Ying, Kong Zhien, A Study of Pela Language (2007; Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, Beijing)