Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/-ŋa

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Reconstruction

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *-ŋ (DeLancey, 2023)

Probably a suffixed version of *ŋa (“I”, first person pronoun).

Suffix

*-ŋa (plural *-i)

  1. First-person agreement suffix on verbs.

Descendants

  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: -a
      • Situ: -ŋ
      • Zbu: -aŋ
  • Nungish
  • Northern Naga
    • Tangsa-Nocte
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