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Sherpas are Tibetan, and romanizing Tibetan is notoriously difficult because the modern pronunciation diverges wildly from the writing and there are many dialec
by resolutebat 3y ago
Sherpas are Tibetan, and romanizing Tibetan is notoriously difficult because the modern pronunciation diverges wildly from the writing and there are many dialects to boot. “bsTan-aDzin Nor-rGyas" is the Wylie transliteration, which represents the script accurately and is useful for scholars, but completely unpronounceable to the lay reader.
- pookha 3y agoSherpa's are also Nepalese and it's typically a last name (occupation). And I thought (could be off) that most of the Sherpa's on Everest are nepalese?
- q845712 3y agoTheir language is "Tibetic" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages