xaitang

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 學堂／学堂 (xuétáng).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɕetʰɑ̃]

Noun

xaitang

  1. school
    ngu-da mize-liangge xaitang-li qhi-di-yek.
    My youngest sister and I go to schoool.
    (Quoted in Janhunen, p. 138)

References
  • Juna A. Janhunen (2009 September) “Writing Chinese in Tibetan: On the Alternatives for an Wutun Orthography”, in Scripta, volume 1, pages 127—143
  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
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