The people, who promoted Nepal’s identity in the past days, are losing their own identity. It has been matter of sadness that world knows Sherpa but their language is dying. The more serious matter is that our own young generation doesn’t keep interest to speak their mother tongue. This creates doubt whether our mother tongue dies soon. This is the reason why we decided to create this ‘We Are Sherpa’ website. People might ask various questions like ‘Why should I learn Sherpa language?’ ‘Do I get a job by learning Sherpa Language?’ and etc. We have heard such better voice a lot. Heart wrenches while listening such bitter words. We feel sad with love of our language.
Every coin has other side. Lots of foreigners and people from other caste like Sherpa people. They keep interest and like our culture and tradition. Numerous people have done their research study in Sherpa language 80% tourists who come to visit Nepal reach Sherpa villages. They learn Sherpa matters.
Hello tashi delek टाशी देलेग བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
How are You ? thang bu? थङ्बु ? ཐང་པུ།
I'm fine. lase thang bu rang लसे थङ्बु रङ । ལ་སེ་ཐང་པུ་རང་།
What is your name? chhen la khang shyi? छेनला खाङ श्यी ? མཚན་ལ་ཁང་ཞིས།
My name is… nge ming la ... siu ङे मीङला...सीउ । ངེ་མིང་ལ་་་་སིའུ།
OK lase लसे ལ་སེ།
All right teri lemu तेरी लेमु । ཏེར་རི་ལེས་མུ།
Very good ude lemu उदे लेमु । ཨུ་བདེ་ལེས་མུ།
It's good di lemu nok दी लेमु नोग । འདི་ལེས་མུ་ནོག།
It's not good di lemu min duk दी लेमु मीन्दुग । འདི་ལེས་མུ་མིནའདུག།
Just a moment ukur chik उकुच्र्यीक । ཨུ་ཀུར་ཅིག།
I like nga la ga lasung ङला गा लासुङ । ང་ལ་དགའ་ལའསུང་།
Yes lase / yin लसे । यीन । ལ་སེ། ཡིན།
No min/ me/ oshi मीन । मे । ओशी མིན། མེད། འོ་ཤིས།
I like Nepal bal yul semla gal वल्युल सेम्ला गाल བལ་ཡུལ་སེམས་ལའགལ།
Mountain kang ri काँङरी གངས་རི།
Is that true ? uthung yin ? उथुङ यीन ? འུ་ཐུང་ཡིན།
Good night jim jya nang gu जिम्ज्य नङ्गु གཟིམས་བྱ་གནང་གུ།
Enjoy your mail shya lak nge bu nang gu श्यलक ङेपु नङ्गु ཞལ་ལག་མཉེས་པུ་གནང་གུ།
Tea sol jya सोल्ज्य । གསོལ་ཇ།
Cold drink Tengge टेङ्गे । གྲེང་གེ།
Good bye kole phep कोले फेप् གོ་ལེ་ཕེབས།
Nice to meet you thene ga lasung ठेने गा लसुङ ཁྱོར་ལ་ཕྲད་ནས་དགའ་ལའསུང་།
See you again long jya lu लोङ ज्यल्लु । ལོང་མཇལ་ལུ།
They learn words as listed above. They teach the words they have learned. The questions raised above are pertinent. But it is WE who have to speak our mother tongue, protect our culture and tradition and practice our religion. To understand the importance and reality of them, we should study our history. It becomes necessary to contemplate and comprehend the past life of our ancestors, their activities and behaviors, their profession, and the present status of our community.