Jiarong, Eastern
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Fact corner
- Language: Jiarong, Eastern
- Alternate names: Situ
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:jya
- Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Tangut-Qiang, rGyarong
- Number of speakers: ?
- Script: -
Introduction
Jiarong is distinguished by its morphological complexity, and the archaisms. It's considered by linguists to be a living fossil of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
The samples on this page are based on the Cogtse/Somang dialects.
The verb
- Persons are marked by prexifing and affixsing the verb root.
- There are 3 numbers: singular, dual, and plural
- There are 3 persons: 1st (I), 2nd (you), and 3rd (he, she, it)
Personal markers of the Jiarong verb
| Person | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||
| Intransitive | Transitive | Intransitive | Transitive | Intransitive | Transitive | |
| 1st | -ŋ | -tʃh | -i | |||
| 2nd | tə- -n | tə- -u | tə- -ntʃh | tə- -ŋ | ||
| 3rd | - | -u | wə- -ntʃh | kə- -ntʃh | wə- -ŋ | kə- -ŋ |
External links
- Guillaume Jacques: La morphologie du sino-tibétain (Journée d’étude « la linguistique comparative en France aujourd’hui », 4 mars 2006, EHESS) (sinotib.pdf)