འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད

Sikkimese

Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, Tibetic, Southern/Central Tibetic)

FamilySino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, Tibetic, Southern/Central Tibetic) Speakers~70K ScriptTibetan CountriesIndia (Sikkim — primarily; Darjeeling, West Bengal — small) Official inSikkim (recognized as Bhutia, one of the 11 official languages of Sikkim) Vitalityvulnerable ISO 639-3sip

Sikkimese (Drenjongke, "language of Drenjong/Sikkim") is a Central Tibetic language closely related to Dzongkha (dz) of Bhutan and the Bumthang languages. The Sikkimese (Bhutia) people are descendants of Tibetan migrations to Sikkim from the 13th century onward. Officially recognized as one of Sikkim's 11 state languages under the name "Bhutia". Mutually intelligible to a substantial degree with Standard Tibetan (bo) and Dzongkha.

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87 core words in Sikkimese

Water

ཆུ

tɕʰu

Fire

མེ

me

Sun

ཉི་མ

ɲima

Moon

ཟླ་བ

dawa

Star

སྐར་མ་

kaːma

Night

ཕྱི་རུ

pʰiru

Rain

ཆར་པོ

tɕʰaːp

Snow

ཁ་བོ

kʰau

Wind

རླུང

luŋ

Earth

ས

sa

Stone

རྡོ

do

Sea

རྒྱ་མཚོ

ɡʲamtsʰo

Mother

ཨམ

am

Father

ཨ་པོ

apo

Daughter

བུམ

bum

I

ང་

ŋa

You

ཆོད

tɕʰøʔ

We

ང་ཅག་

ŋatɕaʔ

Name

མིང་

miŋ

Person

མི

mi

Head

མགོ

ɡo

Eye

མིག

mik

Nose

སྣ

n̥a

Mouth

ཁ

kʰa

Tooth

སོ

so

Tongue

ལྕེ

tɕe

Hand

ལག་ཀོ

lako

Foot

རྐངམ

kaːm

Heart

སྙིང

ɲiŋ

Bone

རུས་པ

rupa

Blood

ཁྱག

kʰjaʔ

Poop

སྐྱག་ཀོ

kʲakko

Love

དགའ

ɡa

Tree

ཤིང

ɕiŋ

Dog

ཁྱི

kʰi

Cat

ཞི་མི

ʑimi

Fish

ཉ

ɲa

Bird

བྱ

bja

Horse

རྟ

ta

House

ཁྱིམ

kʰim

Milk

འོ་མ

oma

Salt

ཚྭ

tsʰa

Iron

ལྕགས

tɕaʔ

Wheel

འཁོར་ལོ

kʰorlo

Book

དེབ

dep

Eat

ཟ

sa

Drink

འཐུང

tʰuŋ

Sleep

ཉལ

ɲɛː

One

གཅིག

tɕiʔ

Two

གཉིས་

ɲiː

Three

གསུམ

sum

Four

བཞི

ʒi

Five

ལྔ

ŋa

Hundred

བརྒྱ

ɡʲɛ

Hello

ཁམས་བཟང

kʰamsaŋ

Thank you

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ

tʰuktɕetɕe

Good

ལེགམ

lɛm

Red

དམར་པོ

maːpu

White

དཀར་པོ

kaːpu

Green

ལྗང་ཀུ

dʑaŋku

Tea

ཇ

dʑa

Sugar

ཅི་ནི

tɕini

Sources

Words compared

Compared with languages in the same classification: Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman, Bodish, Tibetic, Southern/Central Tibetic)

Meaning SikkimeseDzongkhaLiturgical Classical TibetanLadakhiSherpaClassical TibetanBalti
Water ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/ ཆུ /tɕʰu/
Fire མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/ མེ /me/
Sun ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉིམ /ɲim/ ཉི་མ /ɲimə/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/ ཉི་མ /ɲima/
Moon ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /tawa/ ཟླ་བ /lzawa/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/ ཟླ་བ /zlaba/ ཟླ་བ /dawa/
Star སྐར་མ་ /kaːma/ སྐརམ /kaːm/ སྐར་མ /kaːma/ སྐར་མ /skarma/ སྐར་མ /karma/ སྐར་མ /skarma/ སྐར་མ /skarma/
Night ཕྱི་རུ /pʰiru/ མཚན་མོ /tsʰanmo/ མཚན་མོ /tsʰɛ̃mo/ མཚན /tsʰen/ ནུབ /nup/ མཚན་མོ /mtsʰanmo/ མཚན /tsʰan/
Rain ཆར་པོ /tɕʰaːp/ ཆརཔ /tɕʰarp/ ཆར་པ /tɕʰaːpa/ ཆར་པ /tʃʰarpa/ ཆར་པ /tɕʰarwa/ ཆར་པ /tɕʰarpa/ ཆར་པ /tʃʰarpa/
Snow ཁ་བོ /kʰau/ ཁ་བ /kʰawa/ ཁ་བ /kʰawa/ ཁ /kʰa/ ཁ་བ /kʰawa/ ཁ་བ /kʰaba/ ཁ་བ /kʰawa/
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