Sherpa Gelu. Study of Phonemes in Sherpa Language

SNV Lalitpur, Nepal, 2007. — 68 p.The study tries to identify and produce the phonemes inventory of Sherpa language. The fluent and competent native Sherpa speakers are the population of research. The study further refers books and other Sherpa related documents as secondary sources of information. The study has been conducted in the Solu region of Solukhumbu district in northeast Nepal where majority of Sherpa people reside. The study finds two clear tones - high and low- in each syllable since Sherpa is a tonal language. Further, there are two different possible contours - rising and falling. Likewise, the phonological foot may consist of only one to maximum four syllables in Sherpa language.