Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག།

An attempt to understand Himalayish & Bodish languages.

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

I have started an initiative for those interested in learning about Tibetic languages. Here is a drive link for such material I have as of now (Kinnauri & Bunan). If you have some valuable text in any of these languages, kindly consider sharing it.

Link: https://t.co/NZX3DJ1qJr

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@pahadiheritage IA loanwords usually have a suffix -ng or -s added. You can check more such examples from my previous tweets.

https://t.co/lgR5hbSOlH

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

Today's #Kinnauri has many words of Sanskrit origin. A general trend is to add -ṅ at the end of the word.
Let's check some example:

1. Tí-thaṅ (lit. Water flatland) < tírtha (Sacred place); generally used for Sacred places of mainstream Hinduism.

2. Sí-maṅ < símá (Boundary)

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

ग्ये हिन्की
धे याँ
इन हिनी
गन/धे गु दिचेनी/दिचे?
ग्ये यूँता
सिब दि!
छाँटौ यूँत?
ख्योरु न्हार्सन?

#रङपाकाम्ची #मार्छा

[Kumaoni__Bhasha @Kumaoni__Bhasha]

मि छूँ
शो/उ छु
हमुन छाँ
तैं कथाँ हिटनै छै? Or शो/उ कथाँ हिटनौ?
मि हिटुँलो
दगाड़ हिट
छेक हिटूँई?
किलै रड़छा?

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

among the Kinnauris.

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

Etymology of the term Kinnaur

Kinnaur find its mention in some Sanskrit manuscript by the term किन्नर/किंनर kinnara/kimnara. Asko Parpola regards kinnaram as a compound word, where the first part is the Proto-Dravidian root *kil, “to sound, resound,”

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

Either early Vedic people found Kinnauris looked similar to the race kinnarī belong to, which perhaps was to mock them.

Or the Kinnauris were deemed mythical owing to the fact that they dwell in higher altitudes.

Or it perhaps referred to human sacrifices that occurred in

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@avzaagzonunaada From loanwords it seems khīr was used in surrounding IA languages

Kanashi, Kinnauri: khīraŋ
Raji: dudaŋ

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@Akhilfrmchd @arunnegi82 @project_pahari @Shimla_wala छु लोननो पोरमेशयरसीस जु सनसारु तोनेसक बेननङ लनशीद की दोगोस
अनेनु इपोटोगद छङं बोखशयाशीद। छु लोनना उतयङा या दोओ देन इमान
लन तो नाशट मा हद बोलकीन अमबोरदु शङमीग पोरया तो।।

Maybe a Kinnauri speaker can further correct it, I suspect some scribal errors & some errors on my end.

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

Epic of King Kesar is perhaps equivalent to Ramayana in this part of the world. It is also prominent in Lahaul & Ladakh. Below is drill down of a part of epic narrated by Nawang Norbu in Bunan language.

Recorded by Manuel Widmer for his work "A Descriptive Grammar of Bunan"

[jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ @yiihya]

Illustrations to the Epic of King Gesar by Mongolian artist Erdenechuluu Darinchuluu

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@EndangeredAlpha Both translation & letterforms are correct

ība-gi hak.

hak is a persian loan via neighbouring IA languages.
Native equivalent could be ꯐꯪꯐꯝ/ꯐꯡꯐꯝ ꯊꯣꯛꯄꯥ (phangpham thokpā) although rare.

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@arunnegi82 @Southie_Nomad @Kyangs_Thang Basically Kinnauri of Hangrang

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@arunnegi82 @Southie_Nomad @Kyangs_Thang Nyamkat is Kinnauri Bhoti

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

@arunnegi82 @Southie_Nomad @Kyangs_Thang Jad has a lot of similarity with Nyamkat if speaking vocab & grammar wise & with Chhitkuli & Nesang vocab wise

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

*small correction
birds -> small birds

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

Kanashi & Kinnauri sentence for the day!

bhiṭiṅ-ā phākuc caṛis-ā nāśi to

boṭhāṅu den gaṭoc pyācā tośid du

On the trees the birds are seated.

In Ranglvu the term for both tree & wood is śiṅ ཤིང. However, if one were to move towards west, languages like Kinnauri,

[Himalayish Tiglhig ༄༅།།གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་ཊིག་ལྷིག། @tiglhig]

What might be a possibility is that the word for wall (bitiṅ) & door (pitaṅ/piṭāṅ) also comes from similar root. All of these words would have been then borrowed in different time of history.

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Kanashi, Bunan & even Bodish languages like sPiti & sTodpa use śiṅ ཤིང for wood & use an IA word for tree/shrub/plant, descended from *bVṭ(ṭ)- class

Kinnauri: boṭhāṅ
Kanashi: bhiṭ(ṭ)iṅ/biṭ(ṭ)iṅ
Bunan, Tinan, sTodpa: buṭā
Pattani: buṭhā
sPiti: buṭi