East Bodish languages

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East Bodish
EthnicityMonpa people etc.
Geographic
distribution		Bhutan
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Glottologmain1269

The East Bodish languages are a small group of non-Tibetic Bodish languages spoken in eastern Bhutan and adjacent areas of Tibet and India. They include:

Overview

"Bod" (བོད) is the endonym for Tibet. The term "East Bodish" was first used by Robert Shafer in 1955.[1] He classified "Dwags" (Takpa) into the "East Bodish Unit" within the Bodish Branch of Sino-Tibetan.[2]

  • Bodic Section
    • Bodish Branch
      • West Bodish Unit
      • Central Bodish Unit
      • South Bodish Unit
      • East Bodish Unit
    • Gurung Branch
    • Tshangla Branch
    • Rgyalrong Branch

Michael Aris mentioned the "Bum-thang" language spoken in areas such as "Tongsa", "Mangdelung", Kheng, and "Kurtö", which retains "the most archaic features of all the Bhutanese languages".[3] George van Driem states that Bumthang, Kheng and Kurtöp could be considered dialects of a single language, but have significant differences and their speakers have distinct regional identities.[4]

The East Bodish languages do not share certain lexical innovations with Old Tibetan (e.g. Tibetan bdun; Takpa nis for 'seven').[5] The branch is not a subgroup of Tibetic as defined by Nicolas Tournadre.[6]

George van Driem initially proposed that 'Ole belonged to the group, but later decided that it belonged to a group of its own.[7]

Although closely related to the East Bodish languages, Tshangla and related languages of eastern Bhutan, also called "Monpa" and predating Dzongkha, form a sister branch not to the East Bodish group, but to its parent Bodish branch.[8][9] Thus the ambiguous term "Monpa" risks separating languages that should be grouped together, while grouping languages together that are quite distinct.[10] Zakhring is apparently also related, though strongly influenced by Miju or a similar language.[11]

Internal classification

Languages of Bhutan, including the East Bodish languages

Hyslop (2010)[12] classifies the East Bodish languages as follows.

She regards the Dakpa–Dzala and Bumthangic subgroups as secure, and the placement of Phobjip and Chali as more tentative.[13]

Lu (2002) divides the "Menba language" (门巴语) into the following subdivisions:[14]

Reconstruction

Hyslop (2014)[15] reconstructs the following Proto-East Bodish forms.

  • *kwa 'tooth'
  • *kra 'hair'
  • *kak 'blood'
  • *kʰrat 'waist'
  • *lak 'hand'
  • *ná 'nose'
  • *pOskOm (?) 'knee'
  • *rOs 'bone'
  • *gO- 'head'
  • *mE- 'eye'
  • *kram 'otter'
  • *ta 'horse'
  • *kʰa- 'hen'
  • *wam 'bear'
  • *kʰwi 'dog'
  • *kʰaça 'deer'
  • *zV 'eat'
  • *ra 'come'
  • *gal 'go'
  • *lok 'pour'
  • *dot 'sleep'
  • *bi 'give'
  • *kʰar 'white'
  • *mla 'arrow'
  • *gor 'stone'
  • *kʰwe/*tsʰi 'water'
  • *rO (?) 'wind'
  • *On (?) 'baby'
  • *daŋ 'yesterday'
  • *néŋ 'year'
  • *da- 'today'
  • *tʰek 'one'
  • *sum 'three'
  • *ble 'four'
  • *laŋa 'five'
  • *grok 'six'
  • *nís 'seven'
  • *gʲat 'eight'
  • *dOgO 'nine'
  • *kʰal(tʰek) 'twenty'
  • *ŋa '1.SG'
  • *i/*nVn '2.SG'
  • *kʰi/*ba '3.SG'
  • *-ma 'FUT'
  • *lo 'Q.COP'

Additional reconstructions can be found in Hyslop (2016).[16]

References

  1. ^ Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2001). A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis). University of Oregon. p. 41. hdl:1794/11466. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  2. ^ Shafer (1955), p. 101.
  3. ^ Aris, Michael Vaillancourt (1978). A Study on the Historical Foundations of Bhutan, with a Critical Edition and Translation of Certain Bhutanese Texts in Tibetan (PhD thesis). SOAS University of London. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  4. ^ van Driem (1994), p. 91.
  5. ^ Michailovsky, Boyd; Mazaudon, Martine. "Preliminary notes on the languages of the Bumthang group". In Kvaerne, Per (ed.). Proceedings of the 6th seminar of the international association for Tibetan studies, Fagernes 1992. The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. pp. 545–557.
  6. ^ Tournadre, Nicolas (2014). "The Tibetic languages and their classification". Trans-Himalayan Linguistics. De Gruyter. pp. 103–129. doi:10.1515/9783110310832.105. ISBN 978-3-11-031074-0.
  7. ^ van Driem, George (2011). "Tibeto-Burman subgroups and historical grammar". Himalayan Linguistics Journal. 10 (1): 31–39.
  8. ^ van Driem (1994), p. 92.
  9. ^ van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill. p. 915. ISBN 978-90-04-12062-4.
  10. ^ Andvik, Eric E. (2009). A Grammar of Tshangla. Tibetan Studies Library. Vol. 10. Brill. pp. 4–7. ISBN 978-90-04-17827-4.
  11. ^ Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-26
  12. ^ Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2010. On the internal phylogeny of East Bodish. Paper presented at the 5th NEILS meeting, Gauhati University 12–14 February 2010.
  13. ^ Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2013). "On the internal phylogeny of East Bodish". In Hyslop, Gwendolyn; Morey, Stephen; Post, Mark W. (eds.). North East Indian Linguistics. Vol. 5. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India. pp. 91–112. ISBN 978-93-82264-72-9.
  14. ^ Lu, Shaozun 陆绍尊 (2002). 门巴语方言研究 [A study of Menba (Monpa) dialects] (in Chinese). Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House 民族出版社.
  15. ^ Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2014). "A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish". In Owen-Smith, Thomas; Hill, Nathan W. (eds.). Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 155–179. ISBN 978-3-11-031074-0.
  16. ^ Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2016. East Bodish reconstructions in a comparative light Archived 2021-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China (STLS-2016). University of Washington, Seattle, September 8–10, 2016.

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