Language name and locationː Kusunda, Gandaki, Lumbin, Nepal [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区库松达语, 尼泊尔中西部发展区专区甘达基, 蓝毗尼及拉布蒂

 

1. qaːsn̩, qasti 

2. dukʰkʰu, dziŋa

3. daɦat, daɦa

4. piɡu, pjaŋdzaŋ

5. pãɡu, pãŋdzaŋ

   After six Kusundas use Nepali numerals some of which native pronunciations.

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Bhoj Raj Gautam and Prof. Madhav Prasad Pokharel, Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. July 19, 2012.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Bhoj Raj Gautam and Prof. Madhav Prasad Pokharel, 2010 年 12 月 25 日.

 

Other comments: Kusunda is a nearly extinct or extinct isolate language out of 270 Ethnic population, living scattered in Gandaki and Lumbini provinces, Nepal. Kusunda has traditional numerals from 1 to 5, and after six, Kusundas use Nepali numerals some of which native pronunciations. Kusunda was formerly classified as Tibeto-Burman, but treated as language isolate.


Language name and locationː Kusunda, Gandaki, Lumbin, Nepal [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区库松达语, 尼泊尔中西部发展区专区甘达基, 蓝毗尼及拉布蒂

 

1. qasti, qaːsn

2. dukʰu, PN + dziŋa

3. dahat, PN + da

4. piːəɡu, PN + pyaŋdzaŋ

5. pãɡo, PN + pyaŋdzaŋ

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Kirk Miller, USA, January 25, 2012.
Source: David E. Watters (2006) Notes on Kusunda Grammar: A Language Isolate of Nepal.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Kirk Miller, 2012 年 1 月 25 日.

 

Other comments: Kusunda is a nearly extinct or extinct isolate language, formerly
classified as Tibeto-Burman. Number 5 looks like an Indic loan. There's another word for (1), qaːsn̩, , but no examples were given in the text. In answering 'how many', it's the qasti form that was used. There's another set used after pronouns, for "we three", "you two", etc.: 2 dziŋa, 3 da, 4 pyaŋdzaŋ, 5 paŋdzaŋ
Watters reports these resemble the list in Hodgson (1857) Comparative Vocabulary of the Languages of the Broken Tribes of Nepal:
2 ghinga, 3 daha, 4 pinjang, 5 pangang. (I don't know why he does not cite the numeral 1)


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