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ང U+0F44, ང
TIBETAN LETTER NGA
← གྷ
 		Tibetan ཅ →

Translingual

Letter

ང

  1. Tibetan letter nga

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ང (nga)

  1. The seventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

Letter

ང (nga)

  1. The fourth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Pronunciation 2

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa (“I”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ང (nga)

  1. I
See also
Dzongkha personal pronouns
absolutive ergative genitive
1st person sg ང (nga) ང་གིས (nga gis) ངའི (nga'i)
pl ང་བཅས (nga bcas) ང་བཅས་ཀྱི (nga bcas kyi)
col ང་བཅས་ཆ་ཁྱབ (nga bcas cha khyab) ང་བཅས་ཆ་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི (nga bcas cha khyab kyi) ང་བཅས་ཆ་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི (nga bcas cha khyab kyi)
2nd person sg ཁྱོད (khyod) ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས (khyod kyis) ཁྱོད་ཀྱི (khyod kyi)
pl ཁྱེས (khyes) ཁྱེས་ཀྱིས (khyes kyis) ཁྱེས་ཀྱི (khyes kyi)
col ཁྱེས་ཆ་ཁྱབ (khyes cha khyab) ཁྱེས་ཆ་ཁྱབ་ཀྱིས (khyes cha khyab kyis) ཁྱེས་ཆ་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི (khyes cha khyab kyi)
3rd person sg m ཁོ (kho) ཁོ་གིས (kho gis) ཁོ་གི (kho gi)
f མོ (mo) མོ་གིས (mo gis) མོ་གི (mo gi)
n ཕྱོ (phyo) ཕྱོ་གིས (phyo gis) ཕྱོ་གི (phyo gi)
pl ཁོང (khong) ཁོང་གིས (khong gis) ཁོང་གི (khong gi)
col ཁོང་ཆ་ཁྱབ (khong cha khyab) ཁོང་ཆ་ཁྱབ་གིས (khong cha khyab gis) ཁོང་ཆ་ཁྱབ་གི (khong cha khyab gi)
Honorific (2nd & 3rd) sg ནཱ (nā) ནཱ་གྱིས (nā gyis) ནཱ་གྱི (nā gyi)
pl ནཱ་བུ (nā bu) ནཱ་བུ་གྱིས (nā bu gyis) ནཱ་བུ་གྱི (nā bu gyi)
col ནཱ་བུ་ཆ་ཁྱབ (nā bu cha khyab) ནཱ་བུ་ཆ་ཁྱབ་གྱིས (nā bu cha khyab gyis) ནཱ་བུ་ཆ་ཁྱབ་གྱིས (nā bu cha khyab gyis)

References

  • Karma Tshering, George van Driem (2019) The Grammar of Dzongkha‎, 4 edition, Santa Barbara, California: Himalayan Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara, →ISBN

Sherpa

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ང (nga)

  1. The fourth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

Pronoun

ང (nga)

  1. I

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ང (nga)

  1. The fourth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa (“five”).

Numeral

ང (nga)

  1. five (5)

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

ང • (nga)

  1. The fourth letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa (“I”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ང • (nga)

  1. I (1st-person singular pronoun)
See also
Tibetan personal pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
1st person ང (nga) ང་གཉིས (nga gnyis) ང་ཚོ (nga tsho)
2nd person Ordinary རང (rang) རང་གཉིས (rang gnyis) རང་ཚོ (rang tsho)
Honorific ཁྱེད་རང (khyed rang) ཁྱེད་རང་གཉིས (khyed rang gnyis) ཁྱེད་རང་ཚོ (khyed rang tsho)
Pejorative ཁྱོད (khyod) ཁྱོད་གཉིས (khyod gnyis) ཁྱོད་ཚོ (khyod tsho)
3rd person Ordinary ཁོང (khong) ཁོང་གཉིས (khong gnyis) ཁོང་ཚོ (khong tsho)
Familiar (male) ཁོ་རང (kho rang),
ཁོ (kho) 		ཁོ་རང་གཉིས (kho rang gnyis),
ཁོ་གཉིས (kho gnyis) 		ཁོ་རང་ཚོ (kho rang tsho),
ཁོ་ཚོ (kho tsho)
Familiar (female) མོ་རང (mo rang),
མོ (mo) 		མོ་རང་གཉིས (mo rang gnyis),
མོ་གཉིས (mo gnyis) 		མོ་རང་ཚོ (mo rang tsho),
མོ་ཚོ (mo tsho)

References

  • “ང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
  • “ང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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