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]
Vocabulary [ edit ]
Seu+wa+la (Sewala)
Sunuwar
English
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
Gepukhi
You are
Goi
You
GoiPuki
You are
Daarshow
Beautiful
MaDarshow
Ugly
Khiji Chandeshwori , Bhuji, Preti, Kaati (Wallo Kirat) Mainland after Kathmandu
Writing systems [ edit ]
Though Sunuwar is most commonly written with the Devanagari script, a native writing system, Jenticha , has seen limited use since the 1940s.
Numerals and alphabet (Devanagari) [ edit ]
Numerals [ edit ]
1
ichi/kaa
2
ni/nishi
3
sa/saam
4
le
5
nga
6
ruku/roku
7
chani
8
sasi
9
van
10
gau
Consonants [ edit ]
क
ka
ख
kha
ग
ga
घ
gha
ङ
ṅa
च
ca
छ
cha
ज
ja
झ
jha
ञ
ña
ट
ṭa
ठ
ṭha
ड
ḍa
ढ
ḍha
ण
ṇa
त
ta
थ
tha
द
da
ध
dha
न
na
प
pa
फ
pha
ब
ba
भ
bha
म
ma
य
ya
र
ra
ल
la
व
va
श
śa
ष
ṣa
स
sa
ह
ha
व्ह
hha
References [ edit ]
^ 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 .
^ Borchers, Dörte (2008). A grammar of Sunwar : descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9789004167094 .
External links [ edit ]
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