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The example below shows some differences between the three main dialect groups:
The example below shows some differences between the three main dialect groups:
*English: “I saw the bird that was singing on a tree”.
* English: “I saw the bird that was singing on a tree”.
*Classical: མསངཾཀ་ཏྂ སིངཏཾ བཾ་བིམྨཀའཾརིཀྐཾ མརཾནཏཾང​ ''mësëŋak-tau siŋëta wa-bimmëkārikka mërantaŋ'' (bird=TOP tree-LOC2 REL=CONT-sing-3sg.PRT see-1→3.PRT).
* Classical: མསངཾཀ་ཏྂ སིངཏཾ བཾ་བིམྨཀའཾརིཀྐཾ མརཾནཏཾང​ ''mësëŋak-tau siŋëta wa-bimmëkārikka mërantaŋ'' (bird=TOP tree-LOC2 REL=CONT-sing-3sg.PRT see-1→3.PRT).
*Western: མརཾནིཀྐྃ ཏའིབཾ ཨེ་བིམྨཀའར྅ཀ ཐཾངྟཾ་པཾ ''mëranikke tîwa e-wimmëkārök thaŋta-pa (see-1sg.PRT bird-DEF REL=CONT-sing-3sg.PRT tree-LOC2=on).
* Western: མརཾནིཀྐྃ ཏའིབཾ ཨེ་བིམྨཀའར྅ཀ ཐཾངྟཾ་པཾ ''mëranikke tîwa e-wimmëkārök thaŋta-pa (see-1sg.PRT bird-DEF REL=CONT-sing-3sg.PRT tree-LOC2=on).
*Eastern: ཧིནྟུ མརེམྨཾ་ཏྂ ཨཀྱཽརོད​ ཧེནྟཾན ''hiŋtu mëremmå-tā̊  akyōrol hentaŋ'' (tree-LOC2.FOC bird=TOP 3sg-sing-APRT see-1→3.PRT).
* Eastern: ཧིནྟུ མརེམྨཾ་ཏྂ ཨཀྱཽརོད​ ཧེནྟཾན ''hiŋtu mëremmå-tā̊  akyōrol hentaŋ'' (tree-LOC2.FOC bird=TOP 3sg-sing-APRT see-1→3.PRT).
Southern: ངི སྱེན་པཾཏ ཨངྐོཏ མསྔཾཀ་ཏཾ མྱཾནྟ ''ŋi sjeŋ-pat ăŋkōt măsŋak-tå mjant'' (I.ERG tree=on-LOC sing-APRT bird.ABS=TOP see-PRT).
* Southern: ངི སྱེན་པཾཏ ཨངྐོཏ མསྔཾཀ་ཏཾ མྱཾནྟ ''ŋi sjeŋ-pat ăŋkōt măsŋak-tå mjant'' (I.ERG tree=on-LOC sing-APRT bird.ABS=TOP see-PRT).




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