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The present study “Consonantal system of Sherpa” discusses the Sherpas of Sikkim mainly settled in South and West District. According to the Census of India 2001, the total speaker of Sherpa in Sikkim is 13,922. However, Denzong Sherpa Association claims that the population of Sherpa is more than 65,000 out of which more than 32,000 people speak their Mother Tongue in their native environment particularly in the home domain. Linguistically, Robert Shafer has divided Tibeto-Burman into four main groups: Bodic, Baric, Burmic and Karenic. According to Shafer, Sherpa belongs to the Central Unit of the Bodish Section within the Bodic Sub-division of Sino-Tibetan. The present paper attempts to describe the Consonantal system of Sherpa. Sherpa has twenty six (26) consonantal sounds. It has fourteen stops i.e., /p, pʰ, b, t, tʰ, d, ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, c, cʰ, k, kʰ, ɡ/, four nasals /m, n, ɲ, ŋ/, four fricatives /s, ʃ, ʒ, h/ one lateral /l/one trill /r/ and two semi-vowels; bilabial semi-vowel /w/ and palatal semi-vowel /j/. Consonant combination in Sherpa can be classified into two categories these are: (i) consonant cluster (ii) consonant sequence. Sherpa has initial and medial consonant clusters that occur within the syllabic boundary. Sherpa has a wide variety of consonant sequences. Gemination, Homorganic and Contagious are the Consonant sequences found in Sherpa Language.
本文以“夏尔巴人的辅音系统”为研究对象，探讨了主要居住在锡金南部和西部地区的夏尔巴人。根据2001年印度人口普查，锡金夏尔巴语的使用者总数为13922人。然而，登宗夏尔巴人协会声称，夏尔巴人的人口超过65,000，其中超过32,000人在他们的母语环境中说母语，特别是在家乡。在语言学上，罗伯特·谢弗将藏缅语分为四个主要族群:博迪语、巴里克语、缅甸语和克伦尼克语。根据谢弗的说法，夏尔巴人属于汉藏藏语系博迪支的博迪支中央部。本文试图描述夏尔巴人的辅音系统。夏尔巴语有26个辅音。它有14个顿音，即/p, p k, b, t, t k, d, h/， h/， h/， p /， p /， k /， k /， c /， c /， k /， k /，四个鼻音/m, n, k /， k /，四个摩擦音/s, h/， h/一个侧音/l/一个颤音/r/和两个半元音;双舌半元音/w/和腭半元音/j/。夏尔巴语的辅音组合可分为两类:(1)辅音簇(2)辅音序列。夏尔巴语有出现在音节边界内的起始辅音团和中间辅音团。夏尔巴人有各种各样的辅音序列。双生音、同构音和传染音是夏尔巴语的辅音序列。
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Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.
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