The Puroik language (previously called Sulung , a derogatory term, by other tribes) is a possible language isolate spoken by the Puroik people of Arunachal Pradesh in India and of Lhünzê County , Tibet, in China .
8-663: Besides their own language, the Puroik also use Nishi , Hindi , and Assamese . Literacy is very low, at about 2%. Those who are literate use either the Bengali script , Devanagari or the Latin alphabet to write Puroik. Remsangpuia (2008:17) listed a limited number of Puroik villages. Currently, Puroik are seen inhabiting the following districts and circles of Arunachal Pradesh. They also live in Nyishi, Aka, and Miji areas. According to
16-560: A dialect chain where geographically distant dialects are mutually unintelligible, whereas dialects located close to each other are mutually intelligible. The internal diversity of Puroik is about equal to that of the Western Kho-Bwa branch. Lieberherr (2015) and Lieberherr & Bodt (2017) list the following dialects of Puroik, provided here in geographical order from east to west. Lieberherr & Bodt (2017) classify Puroik as Kho-Bwa , and has traditionally been considered to be
24-401: A language isolate . The Puroik grammar notes here have been adapted primarily from Tayeng (1990). Number is not considered a grammatical feature in Puroik. Plurality is expressed, when required to be stated clearly by huangda , meaning all, many, etc. There is no grammatical gender in Puroik. However the two sexes are distinguished when necessary. To indicate other relatives and persons
32-504: A Sino-Tibetan language. There is some mutual intelligibility with Bugun , and Burling (2003) grouped it with Bugun and Sherdukpen , and possibly with Lish and Sartang . James A. Matisoff (2009) considers Puroik to be a Tibeto-Burman language that has undergone sound changes such as: Lieberherr (2015) also considers Puroik to be a Tibeto-Burman language, although he notes that it has likely borrowed from non-Tibetan-Burman languages. However, Roger Blench (2011) considers Puroik to be
40-454: Is used for both genders. There are four types of adjectives: adjective of quality, adjective of quantity, demonstrative adjective, interrogative adjective. Puroik verbs do not indicate number and person. The three principal tenses (present, past, and future), including the indefinite and the continuous are indicated by means of particles used as suffixes. There are four moods: Imperative, potential, conditional, and subjunctive. Imperative uses
48-812: The Ethnologue , Puroik is spoken in 53 villages along the Par River in Arunachal Pradesh . The Puroik are located from the Upper Subansiri River drainage basin (西巴霞区) to the Tawang River drainage basin (Li 2005). Names include pɯh˧˩ ɣut˥ (autonym) and su˥ loŋ˧ ( Bangni exonym). There are about 3,000 Puroik as of 2002, who are classified as ethnic Lhoba by the Chinese government. Lieberherr (2015) consider Puroik to be
56-418: The suffix - aphu is added for the male and - amua for the female. Demonstrative, and Interrogative. Seven cases may be distinguished: Subject (Nominative), Object (Accusative), Instrumental, Dative (Purposive), Ablative, Possessive (Genitive), and Locative. The Personal Pronoun distinguished three persons (the first person, second person, and third person) and two numbers (singular and plural). The same form
64-494: The suffix -bo, -da, and -ge for commands. Potential uses the suffix -pa to express the ability to perform. Conditional uses -re/-hangra to express obligation. Adverbs may be distinguished into four classes: Time, place, manner, and interrogative. The following list of 181 words in three Puroik dialects, in addition to Proto-Puroik (the reconstructed proto-language of the Puroik lects), is from Lieberherr (2015: 280–286). Lieberherr (2015) reconstructs Proto-Puroik, drawing data from
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