Sunwar language
Sunuwar greeting
Sunwar, Sunuwar, or Kõits (कोँइच; kõica; other spellings are Koinch and Koincha) is a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal by the Sunwar people. It was first comprehensively attested by the Himalayan Languages Project. It is also known as Kõits Lo (कोँइच लो ; kõica lo), Kiranti-Kõits (किराँती-कोँइच ; kirā̃tī-kõica), Mukhiya (मुखिया ; mukhiyā).[3][4]
Geographical distribution
Sunwar is spoken in the following locations of Nepal (Ethnologue).
Vocabulary
Seu+wa+la (Sewala)
Sunuwar | English |
Namsewal | Namaste |
Seu | (Respect) / (Greeting) / I bow to you |
Maar | What |
Dohpachaa | How to |
Dohshow | How much |
Dohmoh | How big |
Go | I |
Gopuki | We are |
Ge | You (informal) |
Gepukhi | You are (informal) |
Goi | You (formal) |
GoiPuki | You are (formal) |
Daarshow | Beautiful |
MaDarshow | Ugly |
Area
Sunwar is spoken in villages in the districts of Ramechap and Okhaldhunga, about 120 kilometers east of Kathmandu.[4]
Writing systems
Though Sunwar is most commonly written with the Devanagari script, a native writing system, Jenticha, has seen limited use since the 1940s.
Numerals and alphabet (Devanagari)
Numerals
1 | ichi/kaa |
2 | ni/nishi |
3 | sa/saam |
4 | le |
5 | nga |
6 | ruku/roku |
7 | chani |
8 | sasi |
9 | van |
10 | gau |
Vowels
Consonants
References
- ↑ Sunwar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sunuwar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ager, Simon. "Jenticha alphabet, and the Sunuwar language". Omniglot. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- 1 2 Borchers, Dörte (2008). A grammar of Sunwar : descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9789004167094.
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