Tibetan - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Western scholars typically use Wylie transliteration when writing this language in the Latin alphabet. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this language, whose major branches include Khams and Amdo. This language can be prefixed “Sino-” to give the name of a family containing over 400 languages.

ANSWER: Tibetan [or Dbus or Ü or Ü-Tsang; accept Tibetic languages; accept Standard Tibetan or Lhasa Tibetan; accept or Khams Tibetan or Amdo Tibetan]

[10e] Lhasa Tibetan, like Mandarin Chinese, includes these linguistic features, which use changes of pitch to distinguish the lexical or grammatical meaning of words.

ANSWER: tones [accept tonal languages]

[10m] Generally, Tibetan nouns do not inflect for number, but use particles to mark changes in this property. In many languages, the genitive, which marks a noun as possessive, is an example of this property.

ANSWER: noun cases

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	13.33	78%	22%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	21.43	100%	43%	71%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	12.22	89%	22%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	21.43	100%	57%	57%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	10	16.00	80%	30%	50%

Data


CWRU A (UG)	Miami A (UG)	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (DII)	Miami B (UG)	0	10	0	10
CWRU C (UG)	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	Michigan D (UG)	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Michigan B (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	10	0	0	10
West Virginia A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Miami C (DII)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UW Chastity	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
UBC B	UBC A	10	10	10	30
UW Greed	UW Gluttony	10	10	0	20
UW Envy	UW Lust	10	10	0	20
UW Pride	UW Wrath	0	10	0	10
UW Sloth	Boise State	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Belmont	Auburn C	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Emory A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Furman	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Emory Oxford	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
South Carolina B	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Southern	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Appalachian State B	0	0	0	0
Duke A	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Duke B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
NC State	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	UNC A	0	10	10	20
UNC C	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Virginia	0	10	0	10
VCU	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Bard A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	0	10	0	10
Columbia A (UG)	Rutgers A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Maryland B (DII)	Lehigh A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B (DII)	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	10	10	10	30
Penn B (DII)	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Princeton A (UG)	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Illinois D	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Indiana	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Iowa B	SIUE	0	0	0	0