ངཏ​

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Kurtöp

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ངཏ​ (ngat)

  1. I

Declension

Kurtöp 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