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18-628: Nuptse or Nubtse ( Sherpa : ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse, Chinese : 努子峰 ) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal , in the Nepalese Himalayas . It lies 2 km (1.2 mi) WSW of Mount Everest . The main peak, Nuptse I at an elevation of 7,861 m (25,791 ft), was first climbed on May 16, 1961, by Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi. After a hiatus of almost 20 years, Nuptse again became

36-415: A story), descentive, ablative, and locative are distinguished. A verb stem may take on up to three suffixes. The perfective and imperfective aspects are often treated as past and non-past tenses, respectively. The labels "locative" and "ablative" do not refer to the function of the aspect but rather the homomorphous case-like clitic of the same name. Sherpa is strictly verb-final. The infinitive also marks

54-572: Is Noun-Adjective. Quantifiers and numerals also follow the noun they modify. Numerals may take on the suffix -pa to denote ordinality or -kʌr to denote collectivity. The following table lists the days of the week, which are derived from the Tibetan language ("Pur-gae"). Imperfective aspect The imperfective ( abbreviated IPFV or more ambiguously IMPV ) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in

72-893: Is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim , mainly by the Sherpa . The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. About 127,000 speakers live in Nepal (2021 census), some 16,000 in Sikkim , India (2011), and some 800 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (1994). Sherpa

90-784: Is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language . Sherpa is predominantly a spoken language, although it is occasionally written using either the Devanagari or Tibetan script. Sherpa belongs to the Tibetic branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. It is closely related to Central Tibetan , Jirel , Humla , Mugom , Dolpo , Lo-ke, Nubri , Tsum , Langtang , Kyirong , Yolmo , Gyalsumdo , Kagate , Lhomi, Walung , and Tokpe Gola. Literary Tibetan LT - becomes /lh/ and SR- becomes /ʈ/. There are five closely related dialects, these being Solu, Khumbu, Pharak, Dram, and Sikkimese Sherpa. Sherpa

108-411: Is a tonal language . Sherpa has the following consonants: There are four distinct tones; high /v́/ , high falling /v̂/ , low /v̀/ , and low rising /v̌/ . Regardless of the regular tone of the word, the last syllable of a question is to be pronounced with a rising tone. Verb stems are modified for aspect and mood. The imperfective and perfective aspects and the volitional (whether an action

126-455: Is not a particularly independent peak: its topographic prominence is only 319 m (1,047 ft). Hence it is not ranked in the list of highest mountains . The main Nuptse ridge contains 7 summits: Nuptse was first climbed in 1961 and a few times thereafter. In 1987, Sally McCoy, Director of Equipment at The North Face , an American outdoor recreation products company, was part of

144-502: Is used to describe ongoing events, but can still be used in past tense, such as "The rain was beating down". Habitual situations do not have their own verb form (in most dialects), but the construction "used to" conveys past habitual action, as in I used to ski . Unlike in languages with a general imperfective, in English the simple past tense can be used for situations presented as ongoing, such as The rain beat down continuously through

162-762: The Snowbird Everest Expedition. This inspired The North Face to create outerwear named after peaks and glaciers of the region. In 1992, the company introduced the Nuptse Jacket. It featured a novel baffle construction to reduce shifting of the down and to increase warmth. The Nuptse jacket in bright colours was popular in New York City in the 1990s, especially among school kids and rappers . The Nuptse line of outdoors clothing has expanded to over 60 items in 2023. Sherpa language Sherpa (also Sharpa , Sherwa , or Xiaerba )

180-532: The action in the main clause is done for the purpose of achieving the action in the locative clause. d̪am-i PROPER . FEM - GEN sa-p-la eat. IMPF - INF - LOC sʌma food tsò-suŋ cook. PRF . DSJT - POBS d̪am-i sa-p-la sʌma tsò-suŋ PROPER.FEM-GEN eat.IMPF-INF-LOC food cook.PRF.DSJT-POBS Damu cooked food in order to eat The copula(Imperfective hín , perfective hot̪u )is used for existence, location, identity, and adjectival predicates. The evidential particle wɛ́ occurs at

198-455: The end of phrases to denote an action which the speaker witnessed. The negative particle má is used with perfective verbs. There are four case-like clitics in Sherpa: nominative , genitive , locative , and ablative . These can also be used to mark arguments of a verb. There is a split-ergative system based on aspect; nominative-accusitive in the imperfective and ergative-absolutive in

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216-446: The night . A contrast between the progressive and imperfective is seen with stative verbs . In English, stative verbs, such as know , do not use the progressive ( *I was knowing French is ungrammatical), while in languages with an imperfective (for instance, French), stative verbs frequently appear in the imperfective. African American Vernacular English does have an imperfective aspect for present tense formed by adding "be" before

234-468: The objective of mountaineers, with important routes being put up on its west, south, and north faces. Nuptse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse -Nuptse massif . Nuptse lies 2 km (1.2 mi) WSW of Mount Everest. It is a dramatic peak when viewed from the south or west, and it towers above the base camp for the standard south col route on Everest. However, it

252-421: The past, present, or future. Although many languages have a general imperfective, others have distinct aspects for one or more of its various roles, such as progressive , habitual , and iterative aspects . The imperfective contrasts with the perfective aspect , which is used to describe actions viewed as a complete whole. English is an example of a language with no general imperfective. The English progressive

270-400: The perfective. Personal pronouns in Sherpa inflect for number and case. Third-person pronouns may be used as demonstratives, and the third person singular nominative also serves as the postnominal definite marker. There are two articles, which occur phrase-finally. The indefinite form is signaled with the enclitic - i at the end of a noun phrase. The general word order within noun-phrases

288-694: The present continuous of a verb, such as "he be working", or "they be eating". Verbs in Hindi - Urdu ( Hindustani ) have their grammatical aspects overtly marked. Periphrastic Hindi-Urdu verb forms (participle verb forms) consist of two elements, the first of these two elements is the aspect marker and the second element (the copula) is the common tense-mood marker. There are two independent imperfective aspects in Hindi-Urdu: Habitual Aspect , and Progressive Aspect . These two aspects are formed from their participle forms being used with

306-620: The verb of a relative clause and a general action with no specific subject. ɲɛ 1SG . GEN pèt̪- u spill. PRF - INF čʰū water t̪í DEF t̪èŋa cold nɔ́k MIR ɲɛ pèt̪- u čʰū t̪í t̪èŋa nɔ́k 1SG.GEN spill.PRF- INF water DEF cold MIR The water that I spilled is cold The ablative marking denotes successive actions with some causal relationship. t̪í-ci 3SG - GEN dzím-ne catch. PRF - ABL gal go. PRF . DSJT t̪í-ci dzím-ne gal 3SG-GEN catch.PRF-ABL go.PRF.DSJT He caught (it) and went The locative marking denotes when

324-412: Was intentional), infinitive , disjunct, and imperative (commands) moods are differentiated. In verb suffixes, the infinitive, disjunct (action not intended or not known to be intended), past observational, mirative (speaker's surprise), volitional , augmentative (greater intensity), participle , durative (action lasts through an extended time), hortative (plural imperative), dictative (narrating

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