Nuosu (Yi) (Lesson b1) ꆈꌠ, ꆈꌠꉙ 諾蘇 (彜語) Babelstone Lesson 01
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Nuosu Speaker: ꋓꃱꆼꏦꇂꃴꁦꋠꐍꌺꂷ
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Nuosu is a variety of Yi, a kind of Sino-Tibetan language. This is the beginning of a journey to explore this little-known language.
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ꎰꌺꇜꉐꑵꉙ-ꆎꇁꉚ
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Story 1 Text
ꃅꇢ：ꐋꀨ，ꆏꇿꄉꇁ？
Mu Gat: Qop bop, ne kat da la?
Mugat: Comrade, where have you come from?
ꃅꇫ：ꉢꏪꐦꇓꈓꄉꇁ。
Mu Gox: Nga juo jjop lur kur da la.
Mugox: I've come from Zhaojue.
ꃅꇢ：ꆍꏤꋬꂺꀕ？
Mu Gat: nop jiet zzyr muox w
Mugat: How is your family doing?
ꃅꇫ：ꋬꂻꈨꅪꄸ。
Mu Gox: zzyr muo gge hni ddi
Mugox: They're very well.
ꃅꇢ：ꆏꇿꁧꂯ？
Mu Gat: ne kat bbo mix
Mugat: Where are you going?
ꃅꇫ：ꉢꀒꎂꁧꂯ。
Mu Gox: nga op rro bbo mix
Mugox: I'm going to Xichang.
ꃅꇫ：ꆍꏤꑌꋬꂻꀞ？
Mu Gox: nop jiet nyi zzyr muo bat
Mugox: Your family is also well I suppose?
ꃅꇢ：ꋬꂻꈨꅪ，ꐥꅍꀋꐥ。
Mu Gat: zzyr muo gge hni, jjo ddu ap jjo
Mugat: Very well, no problems.
ꃅꇫ：ꆏꇿꒉ？
Mu Gox: ne kat yy
Mugox: Where are you going?
ꃅꇢ：ꉢꑌꀒꎂꒉ。
Mu Gat: ngax nyi op orr yy
Mugat: I am also going to Xichang.
ꃅꇫ：ꑷ！ ꉣꑊꐮꐊꁧꂿ。
Mu Gox: yie! ngap nyit jjyx qo bbo mo
Mugox: Let's go! We'll walk together.
Note: ꂿ is a particle that indicates that the speaker wants the associated action to happen in the future, near or far.
ꃅꇢ：ꑷ！ ꆏꂴꐊ，ꉢꊁꐊ。
Mu Gat: yie! ne miep qo, nga wax qo
Mugat: Let's go! You go in front, I'll follow behind.
would be also cool if there was some series explaining the origin of these 字 Yi use, because they seem to have little to no sense.
Good idea. I was also going to make some videos focused on learning the script along with the vocabulary. Let me know if you have any other ideas. In my previous video, I mention that the Yi script had the same origin as the Chinese Script.
New Vocabulary
ꋍ cyp : one
ꐮꋒ jjyx zzi : to meet someone by chance
ꐋꀨ qop bop : comrade
ꆏ ne : you (sing.)
ꇿ kat : where ?
ꄉ da : from
ꇁ la : to come
ꉢ nga : I, me
ꏪꐦ juo jjop : Zhaojue 昭觉 [a town east of Xichang in southern Sichuan]
ꇓꈓ lur kur : city, town
ꆍ nop : you (pl.)
ꏤ jiet : family
ꋬꂻ zzyr muo : well, in good health
ꋬꂻꈨꅪ zzyr muo gge hni : happy and healthy
ꁧ bbo : to go
ꂯ mix : [interrogative particle]
ꀒꎂ op rro : Xichang 西昌 [a town in southern Sichuan, the capital of the Liangshan Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefecture]
ꑌ nyi : also
ꀞ bat : [vocative particle]
ꐥꅍꀋꐥ jjo ddu ap jjo : everything's fine, there's nothing the matter
ꒉ yy : to go in a downwards direction
ꑷ yie : to walk, to go
ꉣꑊ ngap nyit : we two, us two
ꐮꐊ jjyx qo : together
ꂿ mo : [subjunctive particle]
ꂴ miep : in front
ꐊ qo : to follow
ꊁ wax : behind
Note:
ꃅꇢ：ꆍꏤꋬꂺꀕ？
Mu Gat: nop jiet zzyr muox w
Mugat: How is your family doing?
Notice that ꋬꂻ changes to ꋬꂺ due to tone sandhi before the duplication particle.
ꎭꏿꀐ❤❤❤
ꃴꆾꋬꂻꈨꅪ！ꉢꈌꈬꉬ（ꉢꉪꆈꌠꁱꂷꌶꅉꁥꄉꇁ。）
Also, I thought ꂯ was the future tense, as in when he says ꆏꇿꁧꂯ？ it means "Where will you go?".
It would be unnecessary as kat （ꇿ） already indicates a question being "where?"
@@spectator352 You have raised an important point! Remember that this description of the Nuosu particle ꂯ (mix) is from an outside perspective. So, it functions as both an interrogative particle and a future tense particle depending on the context. There is some overlap here, because asking about what will happen in the future can have the same meaning as a future tense, but not all situations will match up with this perspective.
Here are some examples from Gerner 2013: A Grammar of Nuosu:
As an interrogative particle:
A. As solicitation particle
In wh-questions and alternative questions, the discourse marker ꂯ mix emphasizes the speaker’s wish for feedback, glossable as ‘what do you think’.
(227) a. ꊿꋋꑷꀁꇬꀋꐥ，ꇿꁧꂯ？
co cyx yie ix go ap- jjo, kat bbo mix?
people DEM.PROX CL home NEG- have INT.where go SOL
‘Nobody is at home, where have they gone?’
As a future tense particle:
The idea of remote future can only be expressed by bare mix (by respecting the
person and control constraint).
(226) ꉢꃀꌠꄮꇬꆏꉘꁌꇬꑲꂷꃼꂯ。
nga mop su te go ne hxo pu go yix ma vy mix.
1P.SG old man time SENT.TOP TOP mountain LOC house CL buy FUT
‘When I am old I will buy a house in the mountains.’
@@ThePharmaDharma I still wouldn't directly and fully call it interrogative, mostly a soliciting particle - asking for feedback.
Good idea, and obviously the translations here are not an exact science. This may be closer to how the word is more commonly used, so thanks for your interpretation.
Check your email, comments keep getting removed.
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@@ThePharmaDharma It may have gotten to spam, maybe check spam? Also, it's just this weird glitch where I'm unable to comment anything in reply all of a sudden.
@observer55555 Hey, I didn’t see your email in my spam folder either. What’s your email? I’ll send you a message
Just got your email
I see that the speaker pronounced dd more as a trill than b. Interesting! ꉡꆏꁨꑴꄚꇬꎁꃅ， ꆏꆹꂘꃀꃪꀕꄉꆏꋒꂘꏣꌐꀐ。
In the Sheng Zha dialect (the prestige dialect) of Nuosu, u and ur assimilate after laterals, and retain their rounding
/l̥v̩ʷ˧/ [l̥l̩ʷ˧] ꆭ hlu "to stir-fry", (Like, an "L sound" with an initial breath, but you keep your mouth rounded)
After a labial nasal (M, N, or NG): [m̩ʷ]
/m̥v̩ʷ˧/ [m̥m̩ʷ˧] ꂥ hmu "mushroom" (Difficult to say, but the lips are rounded after breathing out of your nose and then an "M sound")
A labial trill is produced with labial or alveolar stops:
/ⁿdv̩ʷ˨˩/ [ⁿdʙβ̩˨˩] ꅥ ndup "to hit" (This word has the bilabial trill. The lips are trilled just after making a soft "nD sound".)
@@ThePharmaDharma Interesting, I must be studying a different dialect.
Possibly! Mind sharing where you are studying? Feel free to share sources so that everyone can learn more in the comments.