Re:The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)
by resolutebat on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:11AM
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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 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.
Re:The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)
by pookha on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:55AM
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Sherpa'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?
Re:The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)
by q845712 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:03AM
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Their language is "Tibetic" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages
Edit: part of the article hints at the answer, "when Tenzing Norkay, or Tenzing Norkay Sherpa, came to Darjeeling in 1933, he was treading a well-worn path. This is the way he has decided to spell his name—he now has business cards—but a European anthropologist who knows Tibetan says that “Tenzin Norgya” would be a better phonetic rendering, and that an accurate transliteration would be “bsTan-aDzin Nor-rGyas,” the capital letters representing the stresses."