SUPPLEMENT TO "EAST BODISH REVISITED": DATA

This dataset is the supplement to the publication "East Bodish Revisited".

BULLETIN OF TIBETOLOGY, Vol 54 No 1 2023

BODIC LINGUISTICS

This issue of the Bulletin of Tibetology, guest-edited by Prof. George van Driem, is devoted chiefly to linguistics, but more especially to the field of Tibetology in its quintessence. The con­tributions are devoted not just to Sik­kim and the languages of Sikkim, but together they present the most substantive new collection of studies on Bodish languages and on Bodic as a linguis­tic subgroup. In detailing the most recent linguistic insights and clarifying the relationship between Tibetan, Drenjongke and Dzongkha, this issue of the Bulletin updates our understanding of the Bodish languages. At a higher taxonomic level in the family tree, a new understanding is also presented of Bodic as comprising an important branch within the Trans-Himalayan language family.

CONTENTS

George van Driem  Editorial

George van Driem  The Sociolinguistic Situation of Sikkim’s Indigenous Languages and the Origins of the Peoples of Sikkim

Timotheus A. Bodt  East Bodish Revisited

Nathan W. Hill  A Tibetan Passive Construction in the Old Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa

Alex McKay  Book Review: Marching into View: The Tibetan Army in Historic Photographs (1895–1959), Alice Travers, 2022

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This dataset contains all the cognate sets in the paper, with the same sequential numbering as in the paper. This provides for an easy cross-reference between this paper and the supplement. In addition to the information provided in the individual cognate sets in this paper, the cognate sets in the supplement contain important additional information. Whereas the cognate sets in this paper only have a reference to the source code in Table 1 when the source for an individual form is distinct from the main source consulted for each linguistic variety, the cognate sets in the supplement have a more specific reference to the page numbers as well. This makes it easier for people with no or limited knowledge of the source languages (in particular, Dzongkha and Chinese) of some of the source materials to cross-check the referenced forms in their original sources: This also contributes to greater transparency and accountability regarding the use of secondary sources. The cognate sets in the supplement also contain more forms in individual linguistic varieties, for example, forms that for some reason (e.g., borrowing, or lexical innovation) are not illustrative for the sound correspondence that the cognate set is deemed to exemplify, likely cognate forms in other languages, semantic content of the form in the specific variety if this differs from the semantic content of the concept it is cognate with, and other etymological notes and remarks of interest. The abbreviations for the data sources are 

abbr.

variety

source

source (full)

DD

Dakpa-Dzala

DkW

Dakpa Wénlàng

Lù02

Lù 2002

DkM

Dakpa Mámǎ

Lù02

Lù 2002

Lù86

Lù 1986

DkB

Dakpa Bāngjīn

Lù02

Lù 2002

Dz

Dzalakha

DDC17

DDC 2017

TAB

own data

vD07

van Driem 2007b

DkT

Dakpa Tawang

W02

Wangchu 2002

TAB

own data

DkD

Dakpa Dáwàng

Lù02

Lù 2002

DkC

Dakpa Cuònà

Y92

Yìxī 1992

OEB

Other East Bodish

Kt

Kurtöp

KD16

Hyslop et al. 2016

KG17

Hyslop 2017

MM94

Michailovsky and Mazaudon 1994

Bt

Bumthang

vD15

van Driem 2015

MM94

Michailovsky and Mazaudon 1994

DDC18

Dzongkha Development Commission 2018

IT21

Ikeda 2021b

BtU

Bumthang Ura

DDC18

Dzongkha Development Commission 2018

BtC

Bumthang Chume

DDC18

Dzongkha Development Commission 2018

Kh

Khengkha

YA96

Yangzom and Arkesteijn 1996

IT21

Ikeda 2021b

TAB

own data

Md

(Upper) Mangdep

B16

Bosch 2016

Other languages

Tib

Tibetan

(various)

Chi

Chinese

BS

Baxter and Sagart 2014

Tsh

Tshangla

DDC18a

Dzongkha Development Commission 2018a

TAB

own data

Bur

Burmese

mainly Hill 2019

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Bosch, André. 2016. Language contact in Upper Mangdep: a comparative grammar of verbal constructions. BA thesis. University of Sydney: Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
DDC (Dzongkha Development Commission). rdzoṅ-kha daṅ dza-la-kha iṅ-liś śan-sbyar tshig-gi mdzod        [Dzongkha-Dzalakha-English Lexicon]. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission.
—— 2018. bum-thaṅ-kha rdzoṅ-kha iṅ-liś śan-sbyar miṅ-mdzod [Bumthang-Dzongkha-English Lexicon]. Thimphu: Dzongkha Development Commission.
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van Driem, George.  2007b. Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts. Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond: 71–85.
—— 2015. Synoptic grammar of the Bumthang language. Himalayan Linguistics Archive 6 (2015), 1–77.
Hill, Nathan W. 2019. The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2017. A grammar of Kurtöp. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 18. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Hyslop, Gwendolyn, Karma Tshering, Kuenga Lhendrup, and Pema Chhophyel. 2016. Kurtöp/English/Dzongkha Dictionary (draft).
Ikeda, Takumi. 2021b. Basic Vocabulary of Khengkha with English-Chinese Index Ver. 6 (2021/02/28). In, Yasuhiko Nagano and Takumi Ikeda (eds.) Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages 4: Link languages and archetypes in Tibeto-Burman: 121–241.
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—— 2002.《门巴语方言研究》Ménbā yǔ fāngyán yánjiū [A study of the Menba dialect]. 中国少数民族语言方言研究丛书 Zhōngguó shào  shù mínzú yǔyán fāngyán yánjiū cóngshū [Chinese Minority Language Dialect Research Series]). 北京: 民族出版社 Běijīng: Mínzú chūbǎn shè [Peking: Nationalities Press].
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Wangchu, Lhama. 2002. An introduction to Tawang Monpa language. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Arunachal Pradesh.
Yangzom, Deki and Marlen Arkesteijn. 1996. Khengkha Lessonbook. Thimphu: SNV Bhutan.
Yìxī 益西 [Ye-śes]. 1992.《试论措那门巴话与藏语关系》Shì lùn Cuònà Ménbā huà yǔ Zàng yǔ guānxì [On the relationship between the Cuònà Ménbā dialect and the Tibetan language]. 西藏研究 1992年, 3期: 108–122 Xīzàng Yánjiū 1992 nián, 3 qī: 108–122 [Tibet Studies 1992,  Issue 3: 108–122].