Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . , Chinese photo A ROPE BRIDGE IN SOUTH-EASTERN TIBET X ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE 225 the Shan, Lolo, or Moso stocks, which constituted perhapsthe original inhabitants of the country. As for the Tibetansthemselves, I would hazard the guess that, in the same waythat the Japanese are apparently a mixture of the Tartars ofNorth-eastern Asia with the Malays of the Southern Seas,the Tibetans are a mixture of Turkis and Mongols from thenorth and Burmese from the south. The p
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . , Chinese photo A ROPE BRIDGE IN SOUTH-EASTERN TIBET X ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE 225 the Shan, Lolo, or Moso stocks, which constituted perhapsthe original inhabitants of the country. As for the Tibetansthemselves, I would hazard the guess that, in the same waythat the Japanese are apparently a mixture of the Tartars ofNorth-eastern Asia with the Malays of the Southern Seas,the Tibetans are a mixture of Turkis and Mongols from thenorth and Burmese from the south. The peoples of Kam speak various dialects of Tibetan,but standard, or Lhasa Tibetan, is everywhere understood bythe better educated classes. The Lhasa ky and gy usuallybecome ch and j in Kam, thus cki instead of kyi for dog, andjyelbo instead oi gyelbo for king, N or m are always insertedbefore d, b, g, etc. , Dra(n)go, Dartse(n)do, Cha(m)do,Jyeku(n)do. Laso is used instead of Lalasi (the much usedrespectful term for Yes, Sir). In some parts the silent pre-fixes (which in the Lhasa language appear only in the writtenword) see
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