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% |