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 [ edit ]
Sunwar is spoken in the following locations of Nepal (Ethnologue ).
Vocabulary [ edit ]
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
Sunwar is spoken in villages in the districts of Ramechap and Okhaldhunga , about 120 kilometers east of Kathmandu .[4]
Writing systems [ edit ]
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) [ 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 .
^ a b 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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