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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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