xaitang

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 學堂／学堂 (xuétáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕetʰɑ̃]

Noun

xaitang

1. school

   ngu-da mize-liangge xaitang-li qhi-di-yek.

   My youngest sister and I go to schoool.

   (Quoted in Janhunen, p. 138)

References

• Juna A. Janhunen (2009 September) “Writing Chinese in Tibetan: On the Alternatives for an Wutun Orthography”, in Scripta, volume 1, pages 127—143
• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN