Errors in Punjabi Majhi wordlist

[bgo-eiu]

This is referring to the list here: https://asjp.clld.org/languages/PUNJABI_MAJHI

There are several errors. Going in order:

• I: maĩ — final vowel is nasalized, this should be indicated somehow
• you: tū̃ — the word tūsī̃ given is plural despite the guidelines asking for singular "you"
• we: asī — the spelling given does not show the nasalized vowel. the second version given is in the oblique case and unnecessary
• person: ādmī — vowel lengths should be indicated. banda is a loan word from Persian, not native, so all three of the words given are loan words. the native word is lok which would translate to "people" since it is a collective noun.
• louse: jū̃ — long nasal vowel should be indicated
• tree: darakhat — the word for tree is pronounced with an aspirate, not x, and with stress on the second syllable as in da-RAKH-at. it is a Persian loanword despite not being marked as one. the native word is rukh.
• leaf: pattar — patta and pattar both mean leaf, and patta is more common, but if this list is really for the Majhi dialect, the Majhi word is specifically pattar.
• blood: ratt — the common word for blood is ratt. lau does not mean blood. khūn is a Persian loan word and not common compared to ratt.
• bone: haḍḍī — retroflex consonants and long vowel need to be distinguished
• nose: nakk — nakks is not a real word. nose is nakk
• tongue: jhīb — I don't really know why "T" is being used for all of j, jh, c, and ch here, but besides that this word is a loan from Hindi. The other common word, zaban, is also a loan from Persian. whatever the native word was has been entirely replaced
• drink: pīṇā (vowel length + retroflexion, just going to give a transcription for the rest like this)
• see: vekhṇā
• hear: suṇanā
• come: auṇā (ana does not exist in Punjabi, that is a Hindi verb)
• sun: sūraj
• star: tārā
• path: pandh — saṛak means road not path
• mountain: koh — this is a Persian loan word. the word given par means wing not mountain
• night: rāt
• full: bharia — the words given do not mean full

[LinguList]

Thanks, would you like to correct these errors yourself and contribute them? @xrotwang, is there a policy on these kinds of issues for individual languages? Does Søren know these are discussed on GitHub?

[xrotwang]

@bgo-eiu it might be better, to contact Sören Wichmann directly with the proposed corrections, see https://asjp.clld.org/contact