Kurtöp edit

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

ཚཱོ (tshô)

  1. here (at this here place)

Pronoun edit

ཚཱོ (tshô)

  1. you (polite)

See also edit

Kurtöp demonstratives
proximal distal superior inferior
pronoun ཝོ (wo)
ཝོ་ཟི (wozi)
ཝུ་དི (wudi) ཝོ་ཡེ (woye) ཝོ་མེ (wome)
allative adverb ཚོན་དོ (tshondo) ཐུན་དོ (thundo) ཁ་ཀོ (khako) ཡོ་ཏོ (yoto)
ཡོས་ཏོ (yosto)
locative adverb ཚཱོ (tshô) ཐུ (thu) ཡའུ (yau) མའུ (mau)
allative adverb ཚོན་གི (tshongi) ཐུན་གི (thungi) ཡན་གི (yangi) མན་གི (mangi)
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 edit

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 172
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 157