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| Athpare | |
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| Region | Dhankuta District, Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Kirat Athpare of Dhankuta and Bhirgaun |
Native speakers | 5,500 (2011 census) [1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aph |
| Glottolog | athp1241 |
| ELP | Athpariya |
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.
Athpare spoken by some 5,000 people living in Dhankuta District in eastern Nepal. Athpare is spoken to the north of Tamur, to the west of Dhankuta khola, and to the east of Tangkhuwa, and is also spoken in Dhankuta municipality and Bhirgau VDC. [1]
The consonants are shown in the table below. Voiced consonants are rare in the initial position. In the medial position of verbs, voiced consonants are conditioned variants. Aspiration is phonemic in initial position. There are no fricatives except for [s] and [h].
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | ||
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| voiced aspirated | bʱ | dʱ | dʒʱ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | central | w | j | |||
| lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | voiced | r | ||||
| aspirated | rʱ | |||||
Geminated consonants are found in verbs with stem-final [tt] and as the result assimilation to the infinitival suffix (e.g. -ma: pap(t)- + ma -> pamma ‘scratch’).
Vowel phonemes
There are five vowels in Athpare: /i, e, a, o, u/. Vowels are somewhat lengthened in open root syllables, but are likely allophonic to short vowels. Diphthongs are marginal in Athpare—ai, oi and ui have been shown to exist but in very few words.
Subject and object person markers are realized partly as prefixes, partly as suffixes. There are separate number suffixes and tense markers, some of them followed by a copy of the person marker. Periphrastic tense-aspects (perfect and progressive) are fully grammaticalized. Athpare is morphologically ergative, with a split between 1st person and the rest. Minimal use is made of non-finite verb forms: Compound verbs consist of two verbs marked for person and tense, subordinators follow inflected verbs.
Athpare has an extremely complex verbal system, with both actor and undergoer being marked on the verb. There are also several types of suffix copying, resulting in the longest suffix chains of any Kiranti language, e.g., [2] [ page needed ]
ni
see
-ni
-NEG
-m
-1/2P.A
-get
-v2:attain
-n
-NEG
-et
-AUX:PT
-ni
-NEG
-m
-1/2P.A
-ci
-3ns.U
-m
-1/2P.A
-ma
-e
-ga
-NML:ns
‘we (pe) had not seen them’ Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) (help);
Athpare is a verb-final language. Topics and sentence adverbials normally have initial position. There is much freedom in rearranging elements according to communicative needs.
Athpare has a number of verbs corresponding to the English ‘be’:
Participants are coded by pronominal affixes on the verb, and if necessary, by noun phrases Pronouns are optional and used only if the speaker wants to make the reference more explicit.
The following post-positions serve as case markers:
Athpare is SOV word order, all modifiers precede their head. It has nine tense-aspect forms: past, non-past, progressive, ambulative (a progressive form where an activity or process is going on while the actor or subject is moving here and there), perfect, negative non-past (negative paradigms don’t directly mirror positive forms), negative past, a generalized negative and a negative past anterior/past progressive form - and two modes: imperative and optative. The two modes are inflected for person, but have no final tense-aspect markers.
Athpre marks natural gender with kinship terms and for larger animals. Gender plays no role in agreement. There are two qualitative classifiers which distinguish human from non-human.
The language has three numbers: singular, dual and plural, and different 1st person inclusive and exclusive pronouns in dual and plural.
Diminutives are formed from animate nouns with the suffix -cilet. There are unique temporal adverbs for two, three and four units of time (days, years, etc.) before and after the present.
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