Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ni

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

See DeLancey (2019) for the compared pronouns.[1]

Pronoun

*ni (singular *na-ŋ)

  1. you (2nd-person plural pronoun)

Descendants

  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: नीङ्
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • ⇒ Stau: ɲiɲi
    • East rGyalrongic
  • Nungish
    • ⇒ Drung: nvning
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: ni, ⇒ ni hteng (dialectal)
  • Kiranti
    • ⇒ Thulung: [script needed] (ga-ni)

References

  1. ^ DeLancey, Scott (2019) “Non-singular pronouns in Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan)”, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, volume 42, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 110–136
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