Zeme
Zeme-Naga
Sino-Tibetan
Zeme Naga (autonymously Zeme) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Zeme group within Kuki-Chin-Naga, spoken by ~70,000 people across the borderlands of Nagaland, Manipur, and Assam in northeast India. The Zeme people are part of the broader Naga ethnopolitical complex (~3M Nagas across NE India and Myanmar) but linguistically distinct from the more famous Naga languages like Tangkhul, Sumi, and Mao. Zeme has classical Tibeto-Burman features: tonal (low/high), simple noun morphology, polypersonal verb agreement, and SOV constituent order. Naga literacy programs since the 1960s have produced Bible translations and educational materials in Zeme.
Wo es gesprochen wird
20 Kernwörter in Zeme-Naga
Wasser
nki
/nki/
Feuer
mei
/mei/
Sonne
sʰeu
/sʰeu/
Mond
kʰu
/kʰu/
Mutter
nem
/nem/
Vater
ape
/ape/
Essen
so
/so/
Trinken
hʷu
/hʷu/
Liebe
kihai
/kihai/
Herz
heisia
/heisia/
Baum
rik
/rik/
Haus
ki
/ki/
Hund
hui
/hui/
Katze
kʰemi
/kʰemi/
Hand
hak
/hak/
Auge
mik
/mik/
Hallo
hangba
/haŋba/
Danke
kazi
/kazi/
Eins
kha
/kʰa/
Gut
ahei
/ahei/
Quellen
Wörter im Vergleich
Verglichen mit verwandten Sino-Tibetan-Sprachen
| Bedeutung | Zeme-Naga | Tangkhul-Naga | Kurtöp | Mizo | Hakha-Chin | Limbu | Sikkimesisch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wasser | nki /nki/ | ze /ze/ | khwe /kʰwe/ | tui /tui/ | ti /ti/ | ᤇᤘᤠ /tʃʰwaː/ | ཆུ /tɕʰu/ |
| Feuer | mei /mei/ | mei /mei/ | mi /mi/ | mei /mei/ | mei /mei/ | ᤔᤡ /mi/ | མེ /me/ |
| Sonne | sʰeu /sʰeu/ | nyithui /ɲitʰui/ | ningpe /niŋpe/ | ni /ni/ | ni /ni/ | ᤊᤠᤶᤑ /ɲaːmpʰʌ/ | ཉི་མ /ɲima/ |
| Mond | kʰu /kʰu/ | lai /lai/ | lai /lai/ | thla /tʰla/ | thla /tʰla/ | ᤗᤠᤒᤠ /laːba/ | ཟླ་བ /dawa/ |
| Mutter | nem /nem/ | ina /ina/ | amai /amai/ | nu /nu/ | nu /nu/ | ᤔᤠᤔᤠ /aːmaː/ | ཨ་མ /ama/ |
| Vater | ape /ape/ | apa /apa/ | apai /apai/ | pa /pa/ | pa /pa/ | ᤀᤠᤒᤠ /aːbaː/ | ཨ་པ /apa/ |
| Essen | so /so/ | ngui /ŋui/ | za /za/ | ei /ei/ | ei /ei/ | ᤆᤠᤔᤠ /tʃaːmaː/ | ཟ /za/ |
| Trinken | hʷu /hʷu/ | rai /rai/ | thung /tʰuŋ/ | in /in/ | din /din/ | ᤌᤢᤴᤔᤠ /tʰuŋmaː/ | འཐུང /tʰuŋ/ |
| Liebe | kihai /kihai/ | cha /tʃa/ | ga /ɡa/ | hmangaih /hmaŋai/ | daw /daw/ | ᤔᤡᤌᤡ /mitʰi/ | དགའ /ɡa/ |
| Herz | heisia /heisia/ | mokyaba /mokjaba/ | nying /ɲiŋ/ | thinlung /tʰinluŋ/ | lung /luŋ/ | ᤛᤡᤰ /sik/ | སྙིང /ɲiŋ/ |
| Baum | rik /rik/ | leiyik /leijik/ | shing /ɕiŋ/ | thingkung /tʰiŋkuŋ/ | thingkung /tʰiŋkuŋ/ | ᤛᤡᤱ /siŋ/ | ཤིང /ɕiŋ/ |
| Haus | ki /ki/ | shim /ʃim/ | khim /kʰim/ | in /in/ | inn /in/ | ᤜᤡᤶ /him/ | ཁྱིམ /tɕim/ |
| Hund | hui /hui/ | ui /ui/ | khwi /kʰwi/ | ui /ui/ | ui /ui/ | ᤁᤣᤳᤇᤡ /keptʃi/ | ཁྱི /tɕʰi/ |
| Katze | kʰemi /kʰemi/ | mibu /mibu/ | byila /bila/ | zawhte /zɔʔte/ | minu /minu/ | ᤐᤡᤛᤡ /pisi/ | ཞི་མི /ʑimi/ |
| Hand | hak /hak/ | phei /pʰei/ | lak /lak/ | kut /kut/ | kut /kut/ | ᤜᤢᤰ /huk/ | ལག /lak/ |
| Auge | mik /mik/ | mi /mi/ | mik /mik/ | mit /mit/ | mit /mit/ | ᤔᤡᤰ /mik/ | མིག /mik/ |
| Hallo | hangba /haŋba/ | hayau /hajau/ | kuzu zangpo /kuzu zaŋpo/ | chibai /tʃibai/ | na dam maw /na dam maw/ | ᤐᤣᤜᤢᤙᤣ /peːhuːje/ | ཁམས་བཟང /kʰamsaŋ/ |
| Danke | kazi /kazi/ | ase /ase/ | kadrinche /kadrintɕe/ | ka lawm e /ka lɔːm e/ | ka lawm /ka lawm/ | ᤐᤡᤍᤠᤱ /pidaːŋ/ | ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ /tʰuktɕetɕe/ |
| Eins | kha /kʰa/ | kha /kʰa/ | thê /tʰe/ | pakhat /pakʰat/ | pakhat /pakʰat/ | ᤌᤡᤰ /tʰik/ | གཅིག /tɕik/ |
| Gut | ahei /ahei/ | kahei /kahei/ | lekpo /lekpo/ | tha /tʰa/ | tha /tʰa/ | ᤏᤢᤒᤠ /nuba/ | ལེགས་པོ /lekpo/ |
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