DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6559623
title: SUPPLEMENT TO "EAST BODISH REVISITED": DATA

description: This dataset is the supplement to the publication "East Bodish Revisited".


BULLETIN OF TIBETOLOGY, Vol 54 No 1 2023


BODIC LINGUISTICS


This issue of the Bulletin of Tibetology, guest-edited by Prof. George van Driem, is devoted chiefly to linguistics, but more especially to the field of Tibetology in its quintessence. The con­tributions are devoted not just to Sik­kim and the languages of Sikkim, but together they present the most substantive new collection of studies on Bodish languages and on Bodic as a linguis­tic subgroup. In detailing the most recent linguistic insights and clarifying the relationship between Tibetan, Drenjongke and Dzongkha, this issue of the Bulletin updates our understanding of the Bodish languages. At a higher taxonomic level in the family tree, a new understanding is also presented of Bodic as comprising an important branch within the Trans-Himalayan language family.


CONTENTS


George van Driem  Editorial


George van Driem  The Sociolinguistic Situation of Sikkim’s Indigenous Languages and the Origins of the Peoples of Sikkim


Timotheus A. Bodt  East Bodish Revisited


Nathan W. Hill  A Tibetan Passive Construction in the Old Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa


Alex McKay  Book Review: Marching into View: The Tibetan Army in Historic Photographs (1895–1959), Alice Travers, 2022


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This dataset contains all the cognate sets in the paper, with the same sequential numbering as in the paper. This provides for an easy cross-reference between this paper and the supplement. In addition to the information provided in the individual cognate sets in this paper, the cognate sets in the supplement contain important additional information. Whereas the cognate sets in this paper only have a reference to the source code in Table 1 when the source for an individual form is distinct from the main source consulted for each linguistic variety, the cognate sets in the supplement have a more specific reference to the page numbers as well. This makes it easier for people with no or limited knowledge of the source languages (in particular, Dzongkha and Chinese) of some of the source materials to cross-check the referenced forms in their original sources: This also contributes to greater transparency and accountability regarding the use of secondary sources. The cognate sets in the supplement also contain more forms in individual linguistic varieties, for example, forms that for some reason (e.g., borrowing, or lexical innovation) are not illustrative for the sound correspondence that the cognate set is deemed to exemplify, likely cognate forms in other languages, semantic content of the form in the specific variety if this differs from the semantic content of the concept it is cognate with, and other etymological notes and remarks of interest. The abbreviations for the data sources are 



	
		
			
			
abbr.
			
			
			
variety
			
			
			
source
			
			
			
source (full)
			
		
		
			
			
DD
			
			
			
Dakpa-Dzala
			
		
		
			
			
DkW
			
			
			
Dakpa Wénlàng
			
			
			
Lù02
			
			
			
Lù 2002
			
		
		
			
			
DkM
			
			
			
Dakpa Mámǎ
			
			
			
Lù02
			
			
			
Lù 2002
			
		
		
			
			
Lù86
			
			
			
Lù 1986
			
		
		
			
			
DkB
			
			
			
Dakpa Bāngjīn
			
			
			
Lù02
			
			
			
Lù 2002
			
		
		
			
			
Dz
			
			
			
Dzalakha
			
			
			
DDC17
			
			
			
DDC 2017
			
		
		
			
			
TAB
			
			
			
own data
			
		
		
			
			
vD07
			
			
			
van Driem 2007b
			
		
		
			
			
DkT
			
			
			
Dakpa Tawang
			
			
			
W02
			
			
			
Wangchu 2002
			
		
		
			
			
TAB
			
			
			
own data
			
		
		
			
			
DkD
			
			
			
Dakpa Dáwàng
			
			
			
Lù02
			
			
			
Lù 2002
			
		
		
			
			
DkC
			
			
			
Dakpa Cuònà
			
			
			
Y92
			
			
			
Yìxī 1992
			
		
		
			
			
OEB
			
			
			
Other East Bodish
			
		
		
			
			
Kt
			
			
			
Kurtöp
			
			
			
KD16
			
			
			
Hyslop et al. 2016
			
		
		
			
			
KG17
			
			
			
Hyslop 2017
			
		
		
			
			
MM94
			
			
			
Michailovsky and Mazaudon 1994
			
		
		
			
			
Bt
			
			
			
Bumthang
			
			
			
vD15
			
			
			
van Driem 2015
			
		
		
			
			
MM94
			
			
			
Michailovsky and Mazaudon 1994
			
		
		
			
			
DDC18
			
			
			
Dzongkha Development Commission 2018
			
		
		
			
			
IT21
			
			
			
Ikeda 2021b
			
		
		
			
			
BtU
			
			
			
Bumthang Ura
			
			
			
DDC18
			
			
			
Dzongkha Development Commission 2018
			
		
		
			
			
BtC
			
			
			
Bumthang Chume
			
			
			
DDC18
			
			
			
Dzongkha Development Commission 2018
			
		
		
			
			
Kh
			
			
			
Khengkha
			
			
			
YA96
			
			
			
Yangzom and Arkesteijn 1996
			
		
		
			
			
IT21
			
			
			
Ikeda 2021b
			
		
		
			
			
TAB
			
			
			
own data
			
		
		
			
			
Md
			
			
			
(Upper) Mangdep
			
			
			
B16
			
			
			
Bosch 2016
			
		
		
			
			
 
			
			
			
Other languages
			
		
		
			
			
Tib
			
			
			
Tibetan
			
			
			
 
			
			
			
(various)
			
		
		
			
			
Chi
			
			
			
Chinese
			
			
			
BS
			
			
			
Baxter and Sagart 2014
			
		
		
			
			
Tsh
			
			
			
Tshangla
			
			
			
DDC18a
			
			
			
Dzongkha Development Commission 2018a
			
		
		
			
			
TAB
			
			
			
own data
			
		
		
			
			
Bur
			
			
			
Burmese
			
			
			
 
			
			
			
mainly Hill 2019
			
		
	



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description: The research on which this publication and supplement is based was supported by the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship PF20_100076 "Substrate language influence in the southern Himalayas" .