Notes On the Jyarung Dialect of Eastern Tibet

Abstract

1) The subject, by namne YfIup-ten (T. Tzcb-bstan) had been in Dar;jeeling four months, thouglh it had beeii sorne eight years since he had left the Jyr.Gya-k'a?).Thewriter cannot,at the moment, do more than mention these localities, since as with many others giveu by himn, T'cup-ten's description of their location was baffling, to say the least. For geographical and topographical information on this littleklnown borderlaud see, E. Hiinisch, Das Goldstromland im Ohinesisch-Tibetischen Grenzgebiele, nach demn grossen Kriegswerk vonz Jahre 1781 dargestellt, in Sven Hedin's So7chern Tibet, Vol. IX, pp. 67-130, with 1 plate, 3 maps and one page of Nachlrige, Stockholm, 1922. Also C. F. Neumanin, uatalogne des Latituedes et des Longitudes de plusiers Places de l'Lmpire chignois, Journal Asiatique, t. XIII (1834), pp. 87-94; W. N. Fergussoui, The Tr'^ibes of NorthWestern Se-,huan, Geogr. Journal (London), 1908, pp. 594-597 anid map (p. 648); J. H. Edgar, T'he M1arches of the Mantze, Loindon (China Inland Mission), 1908 (Chapters XI and XII, pp. 54 -6 7); W. W. Rockhill, ThlUe Land of the Lamas, London, 1891, pp. 344-354; E. Colborne Baber, Travels a;d Researches in the Interior of Ohina, Royal Geographical Society, Supplementary Papers, Vol. 1, LIondon, 1886, pp. 93-95; and T. M. Ainscough, Notes from a Frontier, Shanghai, 1915, p1lP 9-13; 51-59. In the purely linguistic material here reproduced 1 am indebted for many valuable suggestions to Lama Lobzang Mingyur of Darjeeling, whose assistance in recording the language of this speaker 1 am here happy to acknowledge.