Chamdo | |
Also Known As: | Chamdoic |
Region: | Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | (unclassified); Qiangic? rGyalrongic? |
Child1: | Lamo |
Child2: | Larong |
Child3: | Drag-yab |
Glotto: | cham1336 |
Glottorefname: | Chamdoic |
The Chamdo languages are a group of recently discovered, closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet.[1] [2] [3] Their position within the Sino-Tibetan language family is currently uncertain.
The Chamdo languages are:[4]
Jiang (2022) provides the following computational phylogenetic classification of the Chamdo languages.[5]
Lexical comparisons of numerals in four Chamdo languages from Nyima & Suzuki (2019):
Gloss | Larong | Drag-yab | gSerkhu | Lamo | |
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one | ˊte khɯ | ˊtɛ | ˊtɕɛ | ˉdə | |
two | ˊne | ˊne | ˊna | ˉna | |
three | ˊsɔ̃ | ˊsɔ̃ | ˊsɔ̃ | ˉsɔ̰̃ | |
four | ˊɣə | ˉʑe | ˊli | ˉlə̰ | |
five | ˉŋa | ˊŋɑ | ˊɴɑ | ˉɴwə̰˞ | |
six | ˊtɕhu | ˉntɕho | ˊtɕhu | ˊtɕi | |
seven | ˊn̥i | ˉȵ̊e | ˊȵ̊ɛ | ˉn̥i | |
eight | ˊɕe | ˉɕe | ˊɕɛ | ˉɦdʑə | |
nine | ˊɦgɯ | ˉɴɢo | ˊku | ˉŋgo | |
ten | ˉʔa qõ | ˊɦa̰ qo | ˉχɑ | ||
eleven | ˉʔa’ tə | ˊɦa̰ tɛ | ˉhtɕo htɕiʔ | ||
twelve | ˉʔa’ ne | ˊɦa̰ ne | ˉhtɕo ɦȵi | ||
thirteen | ˉʔɔ’ sɔ̃ | ˊɦa̰ sɔ̃ | ˉhtɕu hsɔ̃ | ||
fourteen | ˉʔɔ’ ɣə | ˊɦa̰ ʑe | ˉhtɕʉ ɦʑə | ||
fifteen | ˉʔɑ’ ɴɑ | ˊɦa̰ ɴɑ̰ | ˉhtɕɛ ɦŋa | ||
sixteen | ˉʔo’ tɕhu | ˊɦa̰ntɕho | ˉhtɕu ʈuʔ | ||
seventeen | ˉʔɔ’ ȵ̊e | ˊɦa̰ȵ̊e | ˉhtɕu ɦdʉ̃ | ||
eighteen | ˉʔɔ’ ɕɛ | ˊɦa̰ ɕe | ˉhtɕu ɦdʑɛʔ | ||
nineteen | ˉʔɛ’ ɴɢə | ˊɦa̰ɴɢo | ˉhtɕu ɦgu | ||
twenty | ˉnɑ | ˊnɑ | ˊȵi ɕu |
Suzuki & Nyima (2018: 4-6) provide the following lexical items for Lamo, Larong, and Drag-yab.[1]
The lexical data below is based on the following dialects.
no. | gloss | Lamo | Drag-yab | ||
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1 | bitter | qa˥ qʰɛ˥ | n̥tsʰə˥ | tsʰə˥ | |
2 | cry | qo˧˥ | qo̰˧˥ | qə˧˥ | |
3 | earth | ndzɔ̰˧˥ | ndzɑ˧˥ | ndza˧˥ | |
4 | eat | ndzə˥ | ndzə˥ | ndzə˥ | |
5 | house | tɕi˥ | tɕo˥ | tɕẽ˧˥ | |
6 | blood | se˥ | se˥ | sɛ˥ | |
7 | needle | ʁɑ˧˥ | ʁɑ˧˥ | ʁɑ˧˥ | |
8 | cow | ŋʉ˧˥ | ŋʉ˧˥ | ŋu˧˥ | |
9 | wait | ɦlḭ˥ | ɦle˥ | ɦli˥ | |
10 | horse | re˧˥ | re˥ | re˧˥ | |
11 | salt | tsʰo˥ | n̥tsʰə˥ | tsʰə˥ | |
12 | six | tɕi˧˥ | tɕʰu˧˥ | tɕʰu˥ | |
13 | meat | tɕʰi˧˥ | ɲtɕʰi˥ | ɲ̥tɕʰə˧˥ | |
14 | you | nə˥ | ɲe˥ | ɲa˥ | |
15 | seven | n̥i˥ | n̥i˧˥ | ɲ̥e˥ | |
16 | hand | lu˧˥ | ndi˥ | nde˧˥ | |
17 | butter | jwɚ̰˥ | wa˥ | we˧˥ | |
18 | head | wɔ̰˥ | wɔ̰˥ | ʁo̰˧˥ | |
19 | eye | məʔ˥ do˧ | ɦɲi˥ | ɲə˥ | |
20 | nose | n̥ʉ˥ | ɲ̥u˥ | n̥a˥ rə˧ | |
21 | tongue | ʰl̥ə˥ | ndə̰˥ | mda˧˥ | |
22 | tooth | xʉ˧˥ | ʰl̥i˧˥ | xɯ˧˥ | |
23 | milk | χɔ̰˧˥ | ʰl̥ɔ̰˥ | χl̥ɔ̰˧ | |
24 | moon | le˥ | ɦli˥ | ɦla̰˧ jḭ˧ |
no. | gloss | Lamo | Drag-yab | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 | mouth | ɲ̥tɕʰu˥ to˧ (< Tibetan) | mu˧˥ | ɕi˧˥ | |
26 | foot | siʔ˥ ka˧ | ŋɡɯ˧˥ | pʰə˥ ndɯ˧ | |
27 | liver | se˥ | je˥ | ɲ̥tɕʰĩ˥ mbi˧ (< Tibetan) | |
28 | laugh | ɦɡɛ (< Tibetan) | n̥tsʰə˧˥ | ʁə˥ | |
29 | sleep | nə˥ ɦgɯ˧ | jṵ˧˥ | nə˧˥ mḛ˧ | |
30 | child | no˥ no˧ | n̥tʰe˥ | ɲa˧˥ | |
31 | take | le˧˥ | ɣi˧˥ | tɕʰõ˥ | |
32 | search | xɯ˥ | ɦzɔ̃˥ | ɲə˧˥ ŋo˧ | |
33 | forget | nɛ˧˥ tʰa˥ | ɦmɛ˥ | ɣə˧˥ ɦmu˧ se˧ | |
34 | sky | ɦnɑ˥ (< Tibetan) | ŋo˥ | mo˧˥ | |
35 | sun | nə˥ | ɲi˧˥ | ɲi˧˥ me˧ (< Tibetan) | |
36 | red | ɦmaʔ ɦma˧ (< Tibetan) | nḛ˥ nḛ˧ | ndja̰˥ | |
37 | body hair | ʰpu˥ (< Tibetan) | mɔ˧˥ | mo̰˧˥ | |
38 | urine | qo˥ | pi˧˥ | bi˧˥ | |
39 | look | ʈu˥ | ŋi˧˥ | tʰa˧˥ ŋɛ̃˧ | |
40 | person | mə˧˥ | ŋʉ˥ nɛ̰˧ | ɦŋɯʔ˥ ɲi˧ | |
41 | male | no˥ | zə˧˥ | zə˧˥ | |
42 | daughter | nu˧˥ mo˧ | m̥e˧˥ | m̥ə˧˥ | |
43 | road | tɕə˥ | rɛ˥ | ra˧˥ | |
44 | fear | ɦlɛ˥ | ɦɣe˥ | ɣe˧˥ | |
45 | be born | no˥ mbə˧ | ndzə˧˥ | ndzɑ˧˥ | |
46 | go | xɯ˥ | n̥tʰõ˥ | n̥tʰɛ̃˥ | |
47 | shout | kəʔ˥ ɕi˧ | rɛ˥ | rḛ˧˥ | |
48 | four | lə̰˥ | ɦɣə˧˥ (< Tibetan) | ɦɣe˧˥ (< Tibetan) | |
49 | eight | ɦdʑə˥ (< Tibetan) | ɕe˧˥ | ɕa˥ | |
50 | ten | ʁɑ˧˥ | ʔa˥ qõ˧ | ɦa̰˧˥ ʁõ˧ | |
51 | twenty | ɲe˧˥ qɑ˧ | nɑ˧˥ | nɑ˧˥ | |
52 | be sick | ŋo˥ | nø̰˧˥ | nɛ˧˥ ŋa˧ | |
53 | rain | mo˧˥ | tsu˥ | mo˧˥ | |
54 | wear | to˧˥ ŋɡʉ˧ | ŋɡu˥ | qe˧˥ | |
55 | wind | mɛ̰˥ | ŋɑ˧˥ mi˧ | ɦdʑa˧˥ ɦɡə˧ rə˧ | |
56 | wipe | nə˥ ɕə˧ | ɕḛ̃˥ | xɔ̰˧˥ |
The Changdu Gazetteer (2005: 819)[6] provides the following comparative data in Tibetan script. The table below uses Wylie romanization. English translations for the Chinese glosses are also provided.
English gloss | Chinese gloss | Khams Tibetan (Chamdo) | Lamo (Dongba 东坝话) | Larong (Rumei 如美话) | Drag-yab (Zesong 则松话) | ||
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house | 房子 | ཁང་པ (khang pa) | ཁོང་པ (khong pa) | ཅིས (cis) | ཅོང (cong) | ཅིམ (cim) | |
chhaang (Tibetan alcohol) | 青稞酒 | ཆང (chang) | ཆོང (chong) | ཨོས (os) | ཆང (chang) | དགེས (dges) | |
hand | 手 | ལག་པ (lag pa) | ལག་པ (lag pa) | ལུའུ (lu'u) | འདིས ('dis) | འདིས ('dis) | |
ride horse | 骑马 | རྟ་བཞོན (rta bzhon) | རྟ་ཀྱ (rta kya) | རིས་གྱིས (ris gyis) | རེ་གག (re gag) | རེའུ་ན་ཚེམ (re'u na tshem) | |
hat | 帽子 | ཞྭ་མོ (zhwa mo) | ཞ་མགོ (zha mgo) | ཇའ (ja'a) | དེའུ (de'u) | དེའུ (de'u) | |
eat rice | 吃饭 | ཁ་ལག་ཟས (kha lag zas) | ཟ་མ་ཟ (za ma za) | ཆོག་ཅོག་ཏོས (chog cog tos) | གཟིས་མའི་མཛད (gzis ma'i mdzad) | གཟིན་ཐོ་འམ (gzin tho 'am) | |
sheep | 绵羊 | ལུག (lug) | ལུག (lug) | ཡིས (yis) | ལའ (la'a) | ལྭའུ (lwa'u) | |
beautiful | 漂亮 | སྙིང་རྗེ་མོ (snying rje mo) | གཅེས་ལི་མ (gces li ma) | ཀ་ཞིས་ཉིས (ka zhis nyis) | དངེས་ཡིས (dnges yis) | དངུད་ལུ (dngud lu) | |
donkey | 毛驴 | བོང་བུ (bong bu) | ཀུ་རུ (ku ru) | བ་ཅི (ba ci) | ཅོའུ (co'u) | གུའུའུ (gu'u'u) | |
salt | 盐 | ཚྭ (tshwa) | ཚྭ (tshwa) | ཚོག་ཏི (tshog ti) | ཚེའུ (tshe'u) | ཚྭའུ (tshwa'u) | |
swell | 肿 | སྐྲངས་པ (skrangs pa) | སྐྲོང་པ (skrong pa) | སྐྲེ་བེ (skre be) | དུ་རགས (du rags) | དུའུ་རམས (du'u rams) | |
head | 头 | མགོ (mgo) | མགོ (mgo) | དབུ (dbu) | དབོག (dbog) | གཞོག (gzhog) | |
child | 小孩 | སྤུ་གུ (spu gu) | ཉོག (nyog) | ཉོག་ཉོག (nyog nyog) | ཐད (thad) | ཆ་ཆོག (cha chog) | |
dry beef | 干牛肉 | ཤ་སྐམ (sha skam) | ཤ་སྐམ (sha skam) | བྱིས་རོ (byis ro) | ཆེས་རོང་རོང (ches rong rong) | ཆོའུ་རིམ་རིམ (cho'u rim rim) | |
What is this? | 这是什么 | དེ་ག་རེ་རེད (de ga re red) | འདི་ཆི་རེད་ལས ('di chi red las) | ཏེ་ཧ་ཆོས (te ha chos) | ཨེ་ཏི་ཐོའུ (e ti tho'u) | ཙེ་དུ་ཁྱི (tse du khyi) | |
Where are you going? | 你去哪里 | རང་ག་བ་འགྲོ་ག (rang ga ba 'gro ga) | ཁྱོད་ག་ན་འགྲོ་ཇི (khyod ga na 'gro ji) | ནི་རི་ཧི་ལོ་ཤས (ni ri hi lo shas) | གནད་མདོ་ཧུ་ནུ་ངོག (gnad mdo hu nu ngog) | འདེ་རུ་ཧེན ('de ru hen) | |
crazy person | 疯子 | སྨྱོན་པ (smyon pa) | མྱོན་པ (myon pa) | འ་རོ ('a ro) | སྨྱོན་འབས (smyon 'bas) | ཡ་རོག (ya rog) | |
crow (bird) | 乌鸦 | པུ་རོག (pu rog) | ཁ་ཏ (kha ta) | ཕོ་རོག (pho rog) | ཁ་གཏེ (kha gte) | ཕུའུ་རོག (phu'u rog) | |
Thank you. | 谢谢 | ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ (thugs rje che) | ཡག་བྲུང (yag brung) | བྱུ་ནུ་པུ་ང་ཉིད་གུ་ནི་ད (byu nu pu nga nyid gu ni da) | དེ་སྒྲ་དགེ (de sgra dge) | ཏི་སྒྲ་དགེ (ti sgra dge) |