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Yakkha language

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Yakkha (also erroneously spelled as Yakha) is a language spoken in parts of Nepal, Darjeeling district and Sikkim. [1]

53 relations: Ablative case, Absolutive case, Affricate consonant, Alveolar consonant, Approximant consonant, Arkhaule Jitpur, Arun River, China-Nepal, Athpare language, Belhare language, Chintang language, Chulung language, Clusivity, Comitative case, Darjeeling district, Devanagari, Dhankuta District, Ergative case, Fricative consonant, Genitive case, Glottal consonant, Grammatical number, Grammaticalization, Instrumental case, Interrogative word, Kiranti languages, Kosi Zone, Labial consonant, Lateral consonant, Limbu people, Locative case, Marek Katahare, Muga, Nepal, Nasal consonant, Nepal, Nepali language, Pakhribas, Palatal consonant, Personal pronoun, Phalate, Portmanteau, Possessive, Possessive affix, Postalveolar consonant, Prefix, Retroflex consonant, Sankhuwasabha District, Sikkim, Stop consonant, Syncretism (linguistics), Thematic relation, ..., Trill consonant, Velar consonant, Yakkha. Expand index (3 more) »

Ablative case

The ablative case (sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns and adjectives in the grammar of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.

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Absolutive case

The absolutive case (abbreviated) is the unmarked grammatical case of a core argument of a verb (generally other than the nominative) that is used as the citation form of a noun.

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Affricate consonant

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.

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Approximant consonant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Arkhaule Jitpur

Arkhaule Jitpur is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal.

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Arun River, China-Nepal

The Arun River (अरुण नदी) is a trans-boundary river and is part of the Kosi or Sapt Koshi river system in Nepal.

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Athpare language

Athpare, also known as Athapre, Athpariya, Athpre, Arthare, Arthare-Khesang, or Jamindar, spelled Athpariya I to be distinguished from Belhariya (Athpariya II), is an eastern Kiranti language.

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Belhare language

Belhare (Belhāreor), also known as Athpariya II (not to be confused with Athpariya I), is a Kiranti language spoken by some 2,000 people living on Belhara Hill, at the southern foothills of the Himalayas situated in the Dhankuta District, Kosi Zone in eastern Nepal.

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Chintang language

Chintang (Chintang: छिन्ताङ् Chintāṅ / Chhintang) is an eastern Kiranti language spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people in Chhintang and Ahale VDC's of Dhankuta District, Koshi Zone, Nepal.

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Chulung language

Chulung (Chɨlɨng) is a Kiranti language spoken in Ankhisalla VDC, Dhankuta District, Koshi Zone, Nepal.

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Clusivity

In linguistics, clusivity is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we".

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Comitative case

The comitative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.

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Darjeeling district

Darjeeling District (pronunciation: dɑ:rʤi:lɪŋ) is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी,, a compound of "''deva''" देव and "''nāgarī''" नागरी; Hindi pronunciation), also called Nagari (Nāgarī, नागरी),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group,, page 83 is an abugida (alphasyllabary) used in India and Nepal.

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Dhankuta District

Dhankuta District (धनकुटा जिल्ला) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal.

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Ergative case

The ergative case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that identifies the noun as a subject of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages.

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Fricative consonant

Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two", or "three or more").

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Grammaticalization

In historical linguistics and language change, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a process of language change by which words representing objects and actions (i.e. nouns and verbs) become grammatical markers (affixes, prepositions, etc.). Thus it creates new function words by a process other than deriving them from existing bound, inflectional constructions, instead deriving them from content words.

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Instrumental case

The instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.

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Interrogative word

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, when, where, who, whom, why, and how.

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Kiranti languages

The Kiranti languages are a major family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling Hills by the Kirati people.

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Kosi Zone

Koshi (कोशी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restruction of zones to Provinces.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is an l-like consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Limbu people

The Limbu (ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ) (exonym) or Yakthung (endonym) are Kirati people indigenous and native to their homeland himalayas, hills, mountainous and plains regions of Limbuwan.

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Locative case

Locative (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which indicates a location.

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Marek Katahare

Marek Katahare is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal.

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Muga, Nepal

Muga is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nepali language

Nepali known by endonym Khas-kura (खस कुरा) is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari.

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Pakhribas

Pakhribas (पाख्रीबास नगरपालिका) is an urban municipality out of three urban municipalities located in Dhankuta District of Province No. 1 of Nepal.

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Palatal consonant

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Personal pronoun

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).

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Phalate

Phalate is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Possessive

A possessive form (abbreviated) is a word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense.

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Possessive affix

In linguistics, a possessive affix is a suffix or prefix attached to a noun to indicate it is possessor, much in the manner of possessive adjectives.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar consonants (sometimes spelled post-alveolar) are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself but not as far back as the hard palate, the place of articulation for palatal consonants.

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Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

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Retroflex consonant

A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

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Sankhuwasabha District

Sankhuwasabha District (सङ्खुवासभा जिल्ला) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in Northeast India.

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Stop consonant

In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Syncretism (linguistics)

In linguistics, syncretism exists when functionally distinct occurrences of a single lexeme are identical in form.

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Thematic relation

In linguistics, thematic relations, within certain theories, are the various roles that a noun phrase may play with respect to the action or state described by a governing verb, commonly the sentence's main verb.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).

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Yakkha

Yakkha (Nepali याक्खा, Yākkhā) is an indigenous ethnic group of Nepal (identical with its Kirat family consisting of Limbu, Sunuwar, and Rai of Mongoloid physiognomy).

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ISO 639:lmh, ISO 639:luu, ISO 639:phw, ISO 639:ybh, Lambichhong language, Lambichong language, Lumba-Yakkha language, Phangduwali language, Yakha language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakkha_language

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