ThisProto-Sino-Tibetan entry containsreconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directlyattested, but are hypothesized to have existed based oncomparative evidence.

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan:
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *l(w)a-ŋ (STEDT)

SeeSagart (2007) for the comparison between the Chinese and Karbi forms. In Chinese, this pronoun became the classicall-series of first-person pronouns.

*la

1. this

• Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
  • 余(OC *la (B-S))
  • 予(OC *laʔ (B-S))
  • 台(OC *lə (B-S))
• Karbi:la(“this”)

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